Colonial Period and Independence

Question 1

What is one reason colonists came to America?

Answer 1

freedom

Question 2

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

Answer 2

Native Americans

Question 3

What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

Answer 3

Africans

Question 4

Why did the colonists fight the British?

Answer 4

because there was taxation without representation, quartering of the British army, and the colonists did not have self-government

Question 5

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson

Question 6

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Answer 6

July 4, 1776

Question 7

There were 13 original states. Name three.

Answer 7

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York

Question 8

What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 8

the founding fathers wrote the constitution

Question 9

When was the Constitution written?

Answer 9

1787

Question 10

The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

Answer 10

James Madison

Question 11

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

Answer 11

started the first free libraries

Question 12

Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

Answer 12

George Washington

Question 13

Who was the first president

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

Answer 14

the Louisiana territory

Question 15

name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s

Answer 15

war of 1812

Question 16

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

Answer 16

the Civil War

Question 17

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

Answer 17

slavery

Question 18

What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

Answer 18

preserved the Union

Question 19

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 19

it freed the slaves

Question 20

What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Answer 20

fought for women’s rights