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Fight for Freedom
A Country is Born
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
The Constitution
100
A tax Americans had to pay on paper goods, like newspapers and books.
What is the STAMP ACT?
100
The year that that American Revolution began.
What is 1775?
100
Benjamin Franklin's first job.
What is a printer?
100
George Washington's wife.
Who is Martha?
100
The number of branches of government in the United States.
What is three?
200
The people who make laws in Great Britain.
What is Parliament?
200
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin helped write this.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
Benjamin Franklin loved this city and helped it in many ways.
What is Philadelphia?
200
George Washington's home and farms in Virginia.
Where is Mount Vernon?
200
These are changes and additions to the original constitution.
What are amendments?
300
England's response and punishment to the colonist's Tea Party.
What is close the Boston port?
300
This country helped the colonists, because they hate the British.
What is France?
300
Number of years that Benjamin Franklin went to school.
What is one?
300
George Washington's role and title in the American army.
What is commander in chief?
300
The judges, or justices, work here, and decide how laws fit the constitution.
What is the Supreme Court?
400
He was the King of England during the American Revolution.
Who was King George III?
400
The document that says that all people were created equal.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
These are two things that Franklin invented.
What are bifocals, the lightning rod, and the Franklin Stove?
400
The two people who helped plan the capital city in Washington, DC.
Who are Piere L'Enfant and Benjamin Banneker?
400
The two houses of congress.
What are the senate and the house of representatives?
500
Why were American colonists unhappy with the tax laws that Britain was writing?
Because they did not help to write the laws.
500
A letter or a journal that was written a long time ago and is helpful to historians.
What is a primary source document.
500
Three institutions that Benjamin Franklin started in Philadelphia.
What is a fire department, a library, a school, the post office, a hospital, and a printing press?
500
This is the river that Washington DC sits on.
What is the Potomac?
500
How do Americans help write and choose their own laws?
They vote for senators and representatives who will write the laws they want.