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