Founding Fathers: Quiz 1

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1. Who was the President of the Second Continental Congress that met in Philadelphia is 1776? George Washington Samuel Adams Benjamin Franklin John Hancock

2. Who proposed the plan to write a Declaration of Independence? Patrick Henry George Mason Thomas Jefferson Richard Henry Lee

3. Who was the author of the pamphlet titled "Common Sense" that helped in promoting the idea of independence for the American Colonies? Patrrick Henry Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Samuel Adams

4. Which of the following men refused to sign the Declaration of Independence? Benjamin Rush John Dickinson Roger Sherman Edmund Randolph

5. Which one of the following men was NOT on the Committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence? John Adams George Washington Robert Livingston Roger Sherman

6. Which of one of the following men signed both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution? Thomas Jefferson Roger Sherman John Adams James Madison

7. Which of the following men supported the ratification of the Constitution? Edmund Randloph Patrick Henry Roger Sherman George Mason

8. The Declaration of Independence was actually signed on which of the following dates? September 17, 1787 July 2, 1776 August 2, 1776 July 4, 1776

9. Of the 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence, how many of those men also signed the Constitution for the United States? Nine Six Twelve Fourteen

10. Thomas Jefferson was greatly influenced by which of the following philosophers when he wrote the Declaration of Independence? Francis Bacon Thomas Hobbes John Locke Adam Smiith