Fun Facts
Which department store chain has sponsored New York’s annual Fourth of July firework display since 1976?
What is Macy's?
The day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776?
Said..."Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
peace and quiet at home—at home in America, as opposed to in other nations
What is domestic tranquility?
We the People of the United States, in order to
• form a more perfect _ _ _ _ _,
What is Union?
What do the 13 stripes on the flag of the United States represent?
The thirteen colonies who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Held since 1785, which parade is the oldest continuous Independence Day celebration?
The Bristol Fourth of July Parade, held in Bristol, Rhode Island
The city where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Said..."No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."
Who is George Mason?
The idea that all people are considered of equal value and worth both politically and morally.
What is equality?
We the People of the United States, in order to
• establish _ _ _ _ _ _ _,
What is Justice?
Which statesman is remembered for his large, stylish signature on the Declaration of Independence?
Who is John Hancock?
What were the Dunlap Broadsides?
The first printed copies of the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence freed the American colonies and announced them as independent states no long under this country's rule.
What is Great Britain?
Said...“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Rights that we are unable to give up, even if we want to.
What are unalienable rights?
We the People of the United States, in order to
• insure domestic _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _,
What is tranquility?
Which bird did Benjamin Franklin propose should be the national bird?
What is the turkey?
How many men signed the Declaration of Independence?
56 men from 13 colonies.
The principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Said...“Americanism is a matter of mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race and ancestry. A good American is one who is loyal to his country and to our creed of liberty and democracy
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The numerous choices made everyday in deciding what course of action will add to a person's well-being and make them happy.
What is pursuit of happiness?
We the People of the United States, in order to
• provide for the common _ _ _ _ _ _ _,
What is defense?
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?
Who is Francis Scott Key
Which three U.S. presidents have all died on the 4th July?
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (both in 1826, on the 50th anniversary), and James Monroe (1831).
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What are unalienable rights?
Said..."I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Who is Martin Luther King?
Fairness in relation to the distribution of benefits and burdens among persons or groups in society, procedures or ways of doing things, and responses to wrongs or injuries suffered by a person or group.
What is justice?
We the People of the United States, in order to
• promote the general _ _ _ _ _ _ _, and
•secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What is Welfare?
Who was the seamstress that was said to have made the original American flag?
Who is Betsy Ross?