58.  What is one reason colonists came to America? 

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

59.  Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived? 

    ▪  American Indians  ▪  Native Americans

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

    ▪  Africans  ▪  people from Africa

61.  Why 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

62.  Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? 

    ▪  (Thomas) Jefferson

63.  When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? 

    ▪  July 4, 1776

64.  There 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

65.  What happened at the Constitutional Convention? 

    ▪  The Constitution was written.  ▪  The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

66.  When was the Constitution written? 

    ▪  1787

67.  The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution.  Name one of the writers. 

    ▪  (James) Madison  ▪  (Alexander) Hamilton  ▪  (John) Jay  ▪  Publius

68.  What 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

69.  Who is the “Father of Our Country”? 

    ▪  (George) Washington

70.  Who was the first President?* 

    ▪  (George) Washington