Colonial Period/Independence--from naturalization guide (made harder)
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| What is one reason colonists came to America? | ▪ freedom ▪ political liberty ▪ religious freedom ▪ economic opportunity ▪ practice their religion ▪ escape persecution
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| Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived? | ▪ American Indians ▪ Native Americans
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| What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves? | ▪ Africans ▪ people from Africa
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| 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
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| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | ▪ (Thomas) Jefferson
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| When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? | ▪ July 4, 1776
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| There were 13 original states. Name ten. | ▪ New Hampshire ▪ Massachusetts ▪ Rhode Island ▪ Connecticut ▪ New York ▪ New Jersey ▪ Pennsylvania ▪ Delaware ▪ Maryland ▪ Virginia ▪ North Carolina ▪ South Carolina ▪ Georgia
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| What happened at the Constitutional Convention? | ▪ The Constitution was written. ▪ The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
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| When was the Constitution written? | ▪ 1787
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| The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name two of the writers. | ▪ (James) Madison ▪ (Alexander) Hamilton ▪ (John) Jay ▪ Publius
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| 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 * signer of the Declaration of Independence
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| Who is the “Father of Our Country”? | ▪ (George) Washington
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| Who was the first President? | ▪ (George) Washington
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