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The three rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
100
Excited colonists did this when the Declaration was read for the first time.
What is rang bells and lit bonfires?
100
They made up the early colonial army.
Who are militia and Minutemen?
100
The place where the First Continental Congress met.
What is Philadelphia?
100
The author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
The declaration says this is when the colonies will be independent.
What is immediately?
200
The main writer of the Declaration.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This was where the Battle of Bunker Hill actually took place.
What is Breed's Hill?
200
An important task facing the Second Continental Congress.
What is to organize the colonies for war?
200
The reason the shot at Lexington is referred to as the shot heard 'round the world?
What is it spread the idea of freedom and independence?
300
The words the declaration uses to describe the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain.
What is political bands?
300
The Declaration said that the British government had ruled the colonies in this way.
What is unfairly?
300
The reason troops were sent to Concord.
What is to destroy ammunition, weapons, and other supplies?
300
This man was chosen to command the Continental Army by the Congress.
Who is George Washington?
300
He famously said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
This is where the government gets their power.
What is from the people it governs?
400
A signer of the Declaration committed this and could be hanged for the crime.
What is treason?
400
This is why British troops were sent to Lexington.
What is to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock?
400
The building where the Second Continental Congress met.
What is the Pennsylvania State House (then) or Independence Hall (now)?
400
The leader of the British Army in the colonies.
Who is General Gage?
500
This was the king's purpose in taking away the colonists' rights.
What is to establish absolute tyranny over the colonies?
500
The date the Declaration was signed (including the year!).
What is July 4, 1776?
500
Name three reasons George Washington was named Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
What is he was experienced, he fought in the French and Indian War, he understood soldiers, he knew how to fight a war, he was a strong leader?
500
Which colony was not present at the First Continental Congress
What is Georgia?
500
A poet who wrote about the events in Boston and her life as an enslaved person.
Who is Phyillis Wheatley?