Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of Early U.S. History and Independence

1. What pamphlet published in January 1776 helped the colonists see themselves as independent from the Crown?

Uncommon Sense

Plain Sense

Common Sense

Moral Sense

Nonsense

2. On June 7, 1776, who introduced a resolution to the Continental Congress encouraging them to issue a declaration of independence?

Patrick Henry

Robert Carter

Richard Henry Lee

Edmund Randolph

John Robinson

3. The committee assigned to draft the declaration of independence included five men: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, and what other man?

Benjamin Franklin

George Washington

Henry Lee

Benjamin Rush

Richard Henry Lee

4. Thomas Jefferson wrote what work in 1774 that laid out the First Continental Congress's complaints against the Crown and helped to establish him as a skilled writer?

The Rights of Man

Bill of Rights

Common Sense

Comments on the State of Virginia

A Summary View of the Rights of British America

5. What body adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776?

House of Representatives

Second Continental Congress

House of Lords

First Continental Congress

House of Burgesses

6. The Declaration of Independence was passed unanimously, with which colony abstaining from the vote?

New York

Delaware

Pennsylvania

Virginia

Georgia

7. Copies of the Declaration were made prior to it being adopted. They were sent across the 13 colonies to newspapers, the Continental troops, and officials. What are they called?

Top Secret

Jefferson Pamphlets

Independence Copies

Franklin Sheets

Dunlap Broadsides

8. How many people signed the Declaration?

12

35

56

76

150

9. How many future presidents signed the Declaration of Independence?

Two

Six

Five

One

Zero

10. Where did the Declaration and the Constitution spend World War II?

Fort Knox

Fort Benning

The National Archives

The Smithsonian

Chicago