Question 58
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What is one reason colonists came to America?
Answer:
freedom. political liberty. religious freedom. economic opportunity. practice their religion. escape persecution.
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Question 59
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Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
Answer:
American Indians. Native Americans.
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Question 60
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What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
Answer:
Africans. people from Africa.
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Question 61
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Why did the colonists fight the British?
Answer:
because of high taxes (taxation without representation). because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering). because they didn't have self-government.
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Question 62
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Answer:
Thomas Jefferson
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Question 63
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When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Answer:
July 4, 1776
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Question 64
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There were 13 original states. Name three.
Answer:
New Hampshire. Massachusetts. Rhode Island. Connecticut. New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Delaware. Maryland. Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia.
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Question 65
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What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
Answer:
The Constitution was written. The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
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Question 66
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When was the Constitution written?
Answer:
1787
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Question 67
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The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
Answer:
(James) Madison. (Alexander) Hamilton. (John) Jay. Publius.
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Question 68
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What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
Answer:
U.S. diplomat. oldest member of the Constitutional Convention. first Postmaster General of the United States. Writer of "Poor Richards Almanac." Started the first free libraries.
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Question 69
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Who is the "Father of Our Country"?
Answer:
(George) Washington
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Question 70
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Who was the first President?*
Answer:
(George) Washington