This Week, the Answer Man Takes a Look at the U.S. Declaration of Independence

By Andy Seamans

By Dawn Seamans-Shook

June 14, 2014 2 min read

1. One of the committee members that drafted the Declaration of Independence later withdrew from the Continental Congress because he opposed the break with England. Name him.

2. There were five men who served on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. Can you name them?

3. He was born on Sept. 19, 1737, and died on Nov. 14, 1832, at age 95, making him the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. Name him.

4. TRUE or FALSE: Patrick Henry did not sign the Declaration of Independence.

5. How was the order chosen for the signatures on the Declaration of Independence?

ANSWERD

1. Robert Livingston.

2. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston.

3. Charles Carroll.

4. True.

5. Their signatures were arranged according to the geographic location of the states they represented.

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