Answers: The Founding Fathers

By U.S. News Staff

July 3, 2009 RSS Feed Print

1. B. Benjamin Franklin and George Washington

2. C. Josiah Bartlett

3. D. Patrick Henry

4. B. Samuel Adams

5. False. Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

6. B. John Adams

7. D. New Jersey

8. A. George Mason

9. False. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died the same day, July 4, 1826.

The answer to question 4 was listed incorrectly; it has now been corrected.

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First Thomas Jefferson and later Abraham Lincoln asserted that blacks and whites could never coexist.

Guilt Free of MI 5:36PM July 04, 2009

How is that the answer to :

4. Who had been leading a meeting in Boston when attendees left to take part in the Boston Tea Party?

Answer A is "Aaron Burr".

J Slater of OH 9:36AM July 04, 2009

What has happened to these words: "Overgrwon military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican liberty". By George Washington. Now America's military circles the globe, right?

Waht has happened to these words: "No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and dicharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious or an economy of time be more valuable". By George Washington. Now America's Nation Debt according to conservative sources now has reached over 100 trillion dollars.

What has hsppened to these words: "The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, in the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale". By Thomad Jefferson. So America has and continues to swindle futurity full speed ahead, right?

What has ever happened to these words: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entanlging alliances with none. By Thomas Jefferson. So how many entangling alliances are now existing?

What next for America, God only knows, of course!

H. D. Schmidt of CA 1:31AM July 04, 2009

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