Colonial Period and Independence

Question 1

What is one reason colonists came to

America?

Answer 1

• freedom
• political liberty
• religious freedom
• economic opportunity
• practice their religion
• escape persecution

Question 2

Who lived in America before the Europeans

arrived?

Answer 2

• American Indians

* Native Americans

Question 3

What group of people was taken to America

and sold as slaves?

Answer 3

• Africans

* people from Africa

Question 4

Why did the colonists fight the British?

Answer 4

• because of high taxes (taxation without
representation)
• because the British army stayed in their
houses (boarding, quartering)
• because they didn’t 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 Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

Question 8

What happened at the Constitutional

Convention?

Answer 8

• The Constitution was written.

* 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
• (Alexander) Hamilton
• (John) Jay
• Publius

Question 11

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is

famous for?

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

Answer 12

(George) Washington

Question 13

Who was the first President?

Answer 13

(George) Washington