LIBERTY KIDS: THE FIRST FOURTH OF JULY

WHY DID THE KIDS ASK THE BLACKSMITH TO HURRY WITH THEIR HORSES?

• THEY WERE TIRED OF WAITING

• THEY WANTED TO GET TO GEORGE WASHINGTON

• THEY WANTED TO GET TO BEN FRANKLIN

• THEY WERE HUNGRY

HOW MANY GERMAN TROOPS ARRIVED IN AMERICA?

• 1,800

• 18,000

• 180,000

• 1,800,000

WHERE WAS THE STATE HOUSE?

• PENNSYLVANIA

• CONNECTICUT

• DELAWARE

• NORTH CAROLINA

WHY WAS INDEPENDENCE "DANGEROUS" AND "IMPOSSIBLE?"

• THE BRITISH WERE NOT HAPPY ABOUT THEM WANTING FREEDOM

• IT COULD COST THEM THEIR LIVES

• PEOPLE WERE HAPPY LIVING UNDER BRITISH LAW

• PEOPLE FEAR CHANGE

WHO WROTE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?

• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

• JOHN ADAMS

• GEORGE WASHINGTON

• THOMAS JEFFERSON

NAME ONE STATE THAT STOOD AGAINST THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (AT FIRST).

• DELAWARE

• NEW YORK

• MASSACHUSETTS

• PENNSYLVANIA

WHY WASN'T IT SIGNED ON JULY 2?

• THE INK WASN'T DRY

• NEEDED TO DEBATE AND MAKE CHANGES

• IT WASN'T DONE BEING WRITTEN

• THEY DIDN'T HAVE A PEN

WHO SIGNED THE DOCUMENT FIRST?

• GEORGE WASHINGTON

• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

• JOHN HANCOCK

• THOMAS JEFFERSON

WHO SIGNED THE DOCUMENT SECOND?

• GEORGE WASHINGTON

• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

• JOHN HANCOCK

• THOMAS JEFFERSON

ON WHAT DAY AND IN WHAT YEAR WAS THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNED AND PUT INTO ACTION?

• JULY 4, 1775

• JULY 6, 1775

• JULY 4, 1777

• JULY 4, 1776