
Q: What is one reason colonists came to America?
A: Freedom / political liberty / religious freedom / economic opportunity / escape persecution / practice their religion
Q: Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
A: American Indians / Native Americans
Q: What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
A: Africans / people from Africa
Q: Why did the colonists fight the British?
A: Because of high taxes (taxation without representation) / the British army stayed in their houses / they didn't have self-government
Q: Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
A: Thomas Jefferson
Q: When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
A: July 4, 1776
Q: There were 13 original states. Name three.
A: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
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