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A: Colonial P and I

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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.v 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
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