Colonial Period and Independence / Quiz 10

Question 1

What is one reason colonists came to America?

Answer 1

freedom, political liberty, religious freedom, economic opportunity, practice their religion, or escape persecution

Question 2

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

Answer 2

American Indians
or Native Americans

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Africans or 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), and 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, or Georgia