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Their Sacred Honor
1. Whose vote was needed if Delaware was to join the United States of
America?
2. What act was passed in 1765 that infuriated many colonists?
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Their Sacred Honor
1. Whose vote was needed if Delaware was to join the United States of
America?
2. What act was passed in 1765 that infuriated many colonists?
3. Who said, if Parliament “may take from me one shilling in the
pound…what security have I for the other nineteen?”?
4. What acts followed the repeal of the Stamp Act?
3. Who said, if Parliament “may take from me one shilling in the
pound…what security have I for the other nineteen?”?
4. What acts followed the repeal of the Stamp Act?
5. What took place in Boston in 1770?
5. What took place in Boston in 1770?
6. What organization was formed in 1765?
6. What organization was formed in 1765?
7. What was organized in 1772 to exchange information among the
colonies?
8. What convened in Philadelphia in 1774?
7. What was organized in 1772 to exchange information among the
colonies?
8. What convened in Philadelphia in 1774?
9. What constituted itself as a provisional government in the colonies?
9. What constituted itself as a provisional government in the colonies?
10. What was the name of the American army created by the Second
Continental Congress?
11. Who was in command of this army?
10. What was the name of the American army created by the Second
Continental Congress?
11. Who was in command of this army?
12. Who wrote Common Sense?
12. Who wrote Common Sense?
13. Whose authority was challenged by this tract?
13. Whose authority was challenged by this tract?
14. Who introduced the resolution on June 7 that the colonies should
declare their independence from Britain?
15. Why was the War for Independence fought? (caption)
14. Who introduced the resolution on June 7 that the colonies should
declare their independence from Britain?
15. Why was the War for Independence fought? (caption)
16. Which two men from the Pennsylvania delegation deliberately stayed
away from the State House?
17. How many colonies had voted in favor of separation?
16. Which two men from the Pennsylvania delegation deliberately stayed
away from the State House?
17. How many colonies had voted in favor of separation?
18. Which one abstained?
18. Which one abstained?
19. Who was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence?
19. Who was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence?
20. Where was he from?
20. Where was he from?
List the three counts given by John Adams on why Thomas Jefferson
should be the one to write the Declaration of Independence:
21.
List the three counts given by John Adams on why Thomas Jefferson
should be the one to write the Declaration of Independence:
21.
22.
22.
23.
23.
24. What was the day, month, and year of the adoption of the Declaration
of Independence?
25. Who was the only man to sign the document on that day?
24. What was the day, month, and year of the adoption of the Declaration
of Independence?
25. Who was the only man to sign the document on that day?
26. When was the formal signing by all of the delegates?
26. When was the formal signing by all of the delegates?
27. What was the statue of King George in New York made into?
27. What was the statue of King George in New York made into?
28. How many men signed the Declaration of Independence?
28. How many men signed the Declaration of Independence?
29. What were these men committing?
29. What were these men committing?
30. What was the punishment for this offence?
30. What was the punishment for this offence?
31. List three things that the signers pledged:
31. List three things that the signers pledged:
32. Who said, “Yes, we must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall
all hang separately.”?
33. What were the occupations of the signers?
32. Who said, “Yes, we must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall
all hang separately.”?
33. What were the occupations of the signers?
List three of the hardships suffered by the signers:
34.
List three of the hardships suffered by the signers:
34.
35.
35.
36.
36.
37. Which signer ordered the American’s to attack his own home during
the siege of Yorktown?
38. What motivated the men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
(caption)
39. Who wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls…”?
37. Which signer ordered the American’s to attack his own home during
the siege of Yorktown?
38. What motivated the men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
(caption)
39. Who wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls…”?
40. What is threatened in our own country today? How can we be patriots
for the cause of liberty?
40. What is threatened in our own country today? How can we be patriots
for the cause of liberty?
"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this
crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks
of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us,
that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph." Thomas Paine
"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this
crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks
of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us,
that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph." Thomas Paine