The Founding Fathers
He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This event was a protest against the tax on tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Franklin's experiment with a kite and a key was designed to show that lightning was made of this natural element.
What is electricity?
This building was burned down by the British in 1814. George Washington never lived there.
What is the White House?
This is the year that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
He masqueraded as Silence Dogood in order to write opinion pieces for a newspaper called the New England Courant.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
The American Revolution started in this year.
What is 1775?
This is the reason that Benjamin Franklin was never president of the United States.
What is his age after the American Revolution?
This is the building that houses the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
What are the National Archives?
The Franklin Institute and the Liberty Bell are both located in this city.
Where is Philadelphia?
This silversmith was one of the raiders in the Boston Tea Party.
Who was Paul Revere?
It was this one of the thirteen colonies that was most responsible for taking actions that led to the American Revolution.
What is Massachusetts?
Any three of Franklin's inventions
What are the glass harmonica, bifocal spectacles (glasses), the Franklin stove, the public lending library, the fire department, and the lightning rod?
This old American church is located near the corner of Wall Street and Broadway.
What is Trinity Church?
This most famous founding father of the United States did not sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who was George Washington?
His is the most famous signature on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
This was the war that preceded (came before) the American Revolution and led directly to it.
What is the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War)?
This invention, Franklin's most important, helped to save many lives in the last three centuries.
What is the lightning rod?
This was France's gift to the United States for the centennial.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Both _____________ and Benjamin Franklin helped Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Adams?
They were the makers of the Liberty Bell.
Who were John Pass and John Stow?
This form of economic protest was the most common form of colonial protest before the American Revolution.
What is a boycott?
One of Franklin's two famous examples of compromise in the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bicameral Legislature or the 3/5 Compromise?
The sixteenth president, the first to be assassinated, has a memorial with a statue of him inside it. Ben Gates and Riley Poole argued about stealing the Declaration of Independence in front of his statue.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
It was this kind of code that you learned to write and read at the beginning of this class.
What is an Ottendorf Cipher?