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1
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  1. What is one reason colonists came to America?
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freedom
political liberty
religious freedom
economic opportunity
practice their religion
escape persecution
2
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  1. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
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American Indians

Native Americans

3
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  1. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
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Africans

people from Africa

4
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  1. Why did the colonists fight the British?
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because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
because they didn?t have self-government

5
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  1. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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(Thomas) Jefferson

6
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  1. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
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July 4, 1776

7
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  1. There were 13 original states. Name three.
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Order	State	Date of Entry into the Union
1	Delaware	December 7, 1787
2	Pennsylvania	December 12, 1787
3	New Jersey	December 18, 1787
4	Georgia	January 2, 1788
5	Connecticut	January 9, 1788
6	Massachusetts	February 6, 1788
7	Maryland	April 28, 1788
8	South Carolina	May 23, 1788
9	New Hampshire	June 21, 1788
10  Virginia	June 25, 1788
11	  New York	July 26, 1788
12  North Carolina	November 21, 1789
13  Rhode Island	May 29, 1790
8
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  1. What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
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The Constitution was written.

The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

9
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  1. When was the Constitution written?
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1787

10
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  1. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
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(James) Madison
(Alexander) Hamilton
(John) Jay
Publius
11
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  1. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for? Question 68 Audio (MP3, 440 KB)
A

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

12
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  1. Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
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(George) Washington

13
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  1. Who was the first President?*
A

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(George) Washington