The group of leaders who helped to establish the new American nation.
Who are the Founding Fathers?
100
The city where the Second Continental Congress met.
What is Philadelphia?
100
The main writer of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The Booklet that persuade American Colonists to want independence.
What is Common Sense?
100
Where governments get their powers.
What is from the consent or agreement of the people they govern?
200
The document that announced that the American colonies were breaking away from Great Britain and explained why.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
The country that the Second Continental Congress had to organize the colonies for war.
What is Great Britain?
200
The Writer of the Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
Jefferson believed in equality of All men yet he still ...
What is he owned slaves?
200
The political bands discussed in the Declaration of Independence.
What is the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain?
300
A patriot volunteer who paid and trained to be ready to fight at a minute’s or moment's notice
What is a minute man?
300
The delegates decided to declare this from Great Britain.
What is independence?
300
Two other delegates who helped the main writer in writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who are John Adams and Benjamin Franklin?
300
When does the Declaration say the colonies would be free?
What is immediately or right away?
300
Great Britain has ruled the colonies unfairly.
What is an idea in the Declaration of Independence?
400
A body of mostly untrained part-time soldiers who did required military service and were available for full-time paid duty when needed.
What is militia?
400
The members of the Second Continental Congress were aware that they were committing this crime in writing and signing the Declaration of Independence.
What is treason?
400
The president of the Second Continental Congress who was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
400
The part of the original Declaration that was removed to get Southern Colonies to sign the document.
What is the part of about slavery?
400
Three rights that cannot be taken away.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
500
The meeting of delegates from the American colonies that began in Philadelphia in 1775. The Congress approved the Declaration of Independence and acted as the colonies’ government during the American Revolution.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
500
On June 7, 1776 delegates from this colony proposed a resolution that the United Colonies are and by by right ought to be, free and independent States.
What is Virginia?
500
The first commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
500
To Explain why the colonies should be free of Britain.
What is the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
500
The king's purpose in taking away the colonists' rights.
What is to establish an absolute tyranny or rule over the colonies.