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When Columbus and later European settlers arrived, which people were already living in America?Read the answer and worked solution →Colonists refused to pay taxes to a Parliament where they had no vote. This grievance is called:Read the answer and worked solution →British soldiers stayed in colonists' houses without permission. This practice was called:Read the answer and worked solution →A painting shows Franklin, Adams and a third man drafting the Declaration in 1776. The author of the Declaration was:Read the answer and worked solution →The Declaration of Independence was written in:Read the answer and worked solution →A student lists states that existed at the founding. Which was one of the original thirteen?Read the answer and worked solution →Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia in 1787 for the Constitutional Convention. What did they do there?Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution was signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in:Read the answer and worked solution →Which writer of the Federalist Papers later became President?Read the answer and worked solution →Benjamin Franklin is famous as the first:Read the answer and worked solution →The general who crossed the Delaware and became the first President is called the Father of Our Country. He is:Read the answer and worked solution →Which war did the United States fight in the 1800s?Read the answer and worked solution →The U.S. war between the North and the South was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which problem led to the Civil War?Read the answer and worked solution →Lincoln issued an order during the Civil War affecting the Confederate states. The Emancipation Proclamation:Read the answer and worked solution →Susan B. Anthony fought for:Read the answer and worked solution →A President asked Congress to declare war on Germany, taking the United States into World War I. He was:Read the answer and worked solution →On December 8, 1941 a President signed the declaration of war against Japan. That Depression-era and wartime President was:Read the answer and worked solution →In World War II the United States fought Germany, Italy and:Read the answer and worked solution →Before becoming President, Eisenhower was a general in which war?Read the answer and worked solution →Martin Luther King, Jr. worked for equality for all Americans and fought for:Read the answer and worked solution →Which is one of the two longest rivers in the United States?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the original statesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the American Indian tribesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the presidentsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the history wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Canada border or Mexico borderRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the erasRead the answer and worked solution →Type the yearRead the answer and worked solution →American history bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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When Columbus and later European settlers arrived, which people were already living in America?

  1. Native Americans
  2. Spanish settlers
  3. French traders
  4. Dutch farmers
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Correct answer: A. Native Americans

1. American Indians were here first. 2. Native Americans lived in America before Europeans. 3. Tribes include Cherokee, Navajo and Apache. _Source: USCIS Civics Flash Cards for the Naturalization Test, M-623 (public domain)._

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Colonists refused to pay taxes to a Parliament where they had no vote. This grievance is called:

  1. Separation of the three powers
  2. Taxation without representation
  3. Quartering of British troops
  4. Freedom of the colonial press
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Correct answer: B. Taxation without representation

1. High taxes were one reason colonists fought. 2. They called it taxation without representation. 3. British troops staying in homes was another reason. _Source: USCIS Civics Flash Cards for the Naturalization Test, M-623 (public domain)._

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British soldiers stayed in colonists' houses without permission. This practice was called:

  1. Quartering
  2. Impressment
  3. Tithing tax
  4. Homesteading
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Correct answer: A. Quartering

1. Colonists resented boarding the army. 2. This was quartering. 3. Lack of self-government was a third grievance. _Source: USCIS Civics Flash Cards for the Naturalization Test, M-623 (public domain)._

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