Thomas Paine
What famous pamphlet did T.P write?
Common Sense
Delegates met in this city to debate independence.
Philadelphia
I'm the oldest dude at the Convention and I represented Pennsylvania.
Ben Franklin
"We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Ben Franklin
The beginning of the A.R.W
April 19, 1775
T.P. uses these types of words so all colonists would understand his pamphlet.
Simple, easy to understand
The number of colonies represented at the 2nd C.C.
13
The number of delegates who signed the D.O.I.
56
I'm obnoxious and unliked.
John Adams
I cant believe they removed this word from the D.O.I.
Slavery
I forgot, when was my pamphlet published.
January 1776
Leader of the Continental army.
George Washington
I signed in HUGE Letters.
John Hancock
How do you like my swivel chair?
Thomas Jefferson
Major problem with the Continental Army.
Unorganized
I believed that people should rule...
Themselves
OMG...the most urgent of three tasks the 2nd C.C faced!
To organize the colonies for war.
The colony that abstained when voting to approve the D.O.I.
New York
Cooper's uncle (Or not...)
Roger Sherman
This was sent and rejected by King George III
Olive Branch Petition
The number of copies sold.
500,000
The number on the committee to write the D.O.I.
5
June 7, 1776, I made a resolution to be free from Great Britain.
Richard Henry Lee
I'm not signing that!!!!
John Dickerson
Amarica's Birthday
July 4, 1776