iCivics Placement Test Study (Colonial Period and Independence)

What is one reason colonists came to America

Religious freedom and economic opportunity

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived

Native Americans

What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves

Africans

Why did the colonists fight the British

taxation without representation and quartering soldiers

Who wrote the declaration of independence

Thomas Jefferson

when was the last time Declaration of Independence adopted

July 4, 1776

Eye was 13 originals states name them

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhodes island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia

What happened at the Constitutional Convention

The constitution was written

When was the constitution written

1787

The federalist papers supported the passing of the US Constitution who wrote them

James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Publius

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for

Writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”

Who is the “Father of Our Country” and first president

George Washington