A: Colonial Period and Independence Flashcards
1
Q
- What is one reason colonists came to America?
A
▪ freedom ▪ political liberty ▪ religious freedom ▪ economic opportunity ▪ practice their religion ▪ escape persecution
2
Q
- Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
A
▪ American Indians
▪ Native Americans
3
Q
- What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
A
▪ Africans
▪ people from Africa
4
Q
- Why did the colonists fight the British?
A
▪ because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
▪ because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
▪ because they didn’t have self-government
5
Q
- Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
A
▪ (Thomas) Jefferson
6
Q
- When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
A
▪ July 4, 1776
7
Q
- There were 13 original states. Name three.
A
▪ New Hampshire ▪ Massachusetts ▪ Rhode Island ▪ Connecticut ▪ New York ▪ New Jersey ▪ Pennsylvania ▪ Delaware ▪ Maryland ▪ Virginia ▪ North Carolina ▪ South Carolina ▪ Georgia
8
Q
- What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
A
▪ The Constitution was written.
▪ The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
9
Q
- When was the Constitution written?
A
▪ 1787
10
Q
- The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
A
▪ (James) Madison
▪ (Alexander) Hamilton
▪ (John) Jay
▪ Publius
11
Q
- What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
A
▪ U.S. diplomat
▪ oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
▪ first Postmaster General of the United States
▪ writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
▪ started the first free libraries
12
Q
- Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
A
▪ (George) Washington
13
Q
- Who was the first President?*
A
▪ (George) Washington
