Vocabulary
You should be able to name these kinds of ready-to-fight soldiers in less than 60 seconds.
What are Minutemen?
Founding Fathers arrived in this city of brotherly love for the Second Continental Congress.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Who is George Washington?
Don't overthink it... what is the freedom document called?
What is the Declaration of Indpendence?
The patriots tore down a statue of this man and used the metal to make bullets for a war against him.
Who is King George the III?
What are the Founding Fathers?
It's the whole reason why this meeting was taking place.
What is deciding to declare independence from Great Britain?
This 33-year old from Virginia, with great handwriting, and even better ideas, was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Despite his talk of equality, Thomas Jefferson, and many other southern colonists still participated in this act.
What is owning slaves?
A change made to an official document (like the constitution).
What is an Amendment?
I'll freely admit that the name of this document was a good choice in letting Great Britain know the colonies were breaking apart from them.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine made the difficult concepts of politics easy to understand.
What is Common Sense?
Oh I get it now. Understanding colonial politics was a lot easier thanks to this Founding Father's book/pamphlet.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Every human is born with these three unalienable rights.
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
"Give me liberty, or give me death" was a famous quote by this founding father.
Who is Patrick Henry?
This word is usually associated with small groups of citizen soldiers who performed required military service (ranging from part time to full time).
What are the militia?
What is the Continental Army/Navy?
His signature is so iconic, you can still see it on the original document 248 years later.
Who is John Hancock?
Many southern colonies asked Jefferson to remove this part of the declaration, as many of them still profited off it.
What is slavery?
The main idea of this pamphlet was that America should govern itself.
What is Common Sense?
At Independence Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, the Founding Fathers held this meeting to discuss freedom. It wasn't the first time they did this...
What is the Second Continental Congress?
These were the three main objectives by the Second Continental Congress.
What was
1) To establish a military
2) To appoint a strong leader
3) To decide whether or not to declare independence from Great Britain
A calmer gentleman. And even though he was a Founding Father, this Philadelphia native inventor was not president of the United States.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The date the Declaration of Independence was approved and perhaps the most iconic date in American history.
What is July 4th, 1776
These three men all had a hand in writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who were John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin?