Declaration of Independence

Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams
• Benjamin Franklin

What are the three inalienable rights that all people have?

• Food, Shelter, and Clothing
• Life, Liberty and Death
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

What did one part of the Declaration of Independence list?

• The colonists still wanted to be British citizens
• The colonists wanted to change the British government
• The things the colonists thought the King did wrong

____________________ 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.