Birth of the United States of America

Q. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

1. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Samuel Adams
4. Abraham Lincoln

Q. Responding to the Boston Tea Party incident, British government passed number of Acts called ____________.

1. Boston Acts
2. The British Acts
3. Retaliation Act
4. Intolerable Acts

Q. In 1774, the First Continental Congress was organised in ____________ .

1. New York
2. Virginia
3. Philadelphia
4. New Jersey

Q. Americans adopted a ______ system of government with a ______ constitution and set of written rights.

1. presidential
2. parliamentary
3. written
4. unwritten

Q. Declaration Charter was a outcome of _____________ .

1. Boston protest
2. Continental Congress
3. Continental conference
4. National Congress

Q. Which of the following did President Abraham Lincoln quote from in his Gettysburg Address?

1. The Constitution
2. The Declaration of Independence
3. Common Sense
4. The Federalist Papers
5. The Emancipation Proclamation

Q. On _________ , the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

1. July 4, 1776
2. July 6, 1776
3. July 7, 1776
4. July 8, 1776

Q. The second Continental Congress was organised in the year:

1. 1775
2. 1776
3. 1771
4. 1780