There is something appallingly ironic about working for free on Independence Day.
This Independence Day I have a test for you all. Ten relatively easy questions, most of the answers can be found on the site.
If you cannot score 100%, you should shoot your high school civics teacher and immediately remove yourself to some alternate country like Belgium, or Canada. We certainly can’t use you here.
1. True or False: George Washington signed the Declaration of Independence.
2. Name three men who did.
3. Name two of the three duties of govenment specifically enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
4. Who is the “He” repeatedly mentioned in the Declaration of Independence?
5. Who introduced the motion for Independence?
6. Trick question: The Declaration of Independence began what war?
7. Name one foreign country which based its founding document on our founding document.
8. Name three of the five men on the Committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence.
9. Who was the primary author?
10. In which city was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Happy Independence Day!
Answers:
1. False. George Washington was then in command of the Continental Army in New York.
2. John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are probably the most memorable. Fifty six men from all thirteen newly independent states signed the document.
3. The three specifically enumerated rights for which governments are established to guarantee are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
4. King George III
5. Richard Henry Lee in the following resolution, introduced and adopted on July 2, 1776:
Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
6. The Declaration began no war. It was adopted just shy of fifteen months after the Revolutionary War began in Lexington, Massachussets on April 19, 1775.
7. Ho Chi Minh based his Declaration of Independence for Vietnam on our Declaration of Independence.
8. The five men were John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Roger R. Livingston.
9. Thomas Jefferson.
10. Philadelphia, PA in the rooms of the Pennsylvania State House. Now known as Independence Hall.