Unit 4, Lesson 12: The Declaration of Independence

____________________ were people who were trained to be ready to fight at any moment.

• militia

• Minuteman

• Second Continental Congress

• Founding Fathers

A body of soldiers who did required military service was called a(n) ____________________.

• Minuteman

• Founding Fathers

• Second Continental Congress

• militia

Leaders from different states met in Philadelphia in 1775 for the ____________________.

• Second Continental Congress

• Minuteman

• Founding Fathers

• militia

The group of leaders who helped establish the new American Nation are called the ____________________.

• Minuteman

• militia

• Founding Fathers

• Declaration of Independence

The ____________________ is the document that announced that the American were breaking away from Great Britain.

• Declaration of Independence

• militia

• Minuteman

• Second Continental Congress

At the beginning of the American Revolution, British troops fought against

• a strong central army.

• knights on horseback.

• hired foreign soldiers.

• colonial militias and Minutemen.

An important task facing the Second Continental Congress was to

• organize the colonies for war.

• shut down the Continental army.

• find ways to make the king happy.

• make treaties with American Indian tribes.

The booklet Common Sense persuaded American colonists to

• want independence.

• forget about politics.

• ask for help from the king.

• remain loyal to Great Britain.

The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to

• put an end to slavery.

• offer the king one last chance.

• ask for money to solve problems.

• explain why the colonies should be free.

The main writer of the Declaration of Independence was

• John Adams.

• Benjamin Franklin.

• Thomas Jefferson.

• George Washington.