Declaring Independence 5.4

The president of the Second Continental Congress was _____________.

• John Adams

• Patrick Henry

• George Washington

• John Hancock

The Continental Congress chose Benjamin Franklin to run a new post office system.

• True

• False

Other than Great Britain, what is another "foreign nation" that America was worried about and made a plan for having a representative to improve relations?

• France

• Native Americans

• Spain

• Canada

The delegates sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George III to ______________.

• tell him that they were forming an army

• declare war on Britain

• ask him to protect the colonists' rights

• explain the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense urged colonists to fight for independence.

• True

• False

George Washington and the new Continental Army first drove the British out of _______________.

• Philadelphia

• Boston

• New York

• Charlestown

Which colonists wanted to fight the British for American independence?

• Separatists

• Loyalists

• Nationalists

• Patriots

The introduction to a formal document is called the ________________.

• appendix

• preamble

• audition

• prequel

Thomas Jefferson and John Locke wrote the Declaration of Independence.

• True

• False

Who was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence?

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Hancock

• George Washington