Question:
1) Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
2) What was the Second Continental Congress?
3) Why would sending the letter be considered treason?
4) Name one thing King George was doing that the colonists considered unfair
5) What was John Hancock's position in the Second Continental Congress?
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Answer:
1. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston
2. The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War.
3. The letter was a dangerous thing, because it would be considered treason by the king.
4. King George lll made unfair taxes, would not allow trade with other countries, and made colonists open their homes for soldiers to live with them.
5. John Hancock : The President of the Second Continental Congress.