Signing of DOI
What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
A. To list Grievances
B To declare the 13 colonies free from British Rule
C To encourage foreign help
D All the above
D. All the above
WHERE IS THE DECLARATION KEPT TODAY?
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
SMITHSONIAN
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
WHOSE IDEA ABOUT RIGHTS DID THOMAS JEFFERSON USE WHEN WRITING THE DECLARATION?
JOHN LOCKE OR AVERY RAJSKI
JOHN LOCKE
OF ALL THE COLONIES, WHICH STATE HAD THE MOST SIGNATORIES?
VIRGINIA OR PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA
ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION, GOVERNMENTS ARE ESTABLISHED TO
PROTECT THE NATION FROM INVASION OR
PROTECT THE NATURAL RIGHTS OF CITIZENS
PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS
Complete the following phrase found within the declaration of independence: LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUYIT OF ..........
HAPPINESS
HOW MANY DELEGATES SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?
11 OR 56
56
HE WAS ORIGINALLY AGAINST INDEPENDENCE, BUT CHANGED HIS MIND WHEN HE SAW BRITISH OPPRESSION.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN OR MR. HIRSH
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
WHO WAS NOT APPOINTED TO DRAFT THE DECLARATION?
GEORGE WASHINGTON
OR
JOHN ADAMS
GEORGE WASHINGTON
ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION, THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ALTER OR ABOLISH (END) A GOVERNMENT IF THAT GOVERNMENT
BECOMES TOO INVOLVED IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS OR
VIOLATES NATURAL RIGHTS
VIOLATES NATURAL RIGHTS
A) THOMAS JEFFERSON
B) JOHN ADAMS
THOMAS JEFFERSON
WHO, ON JUNE 7, 1776 INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION IN THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PROPOSING INDEPENDENCE FOR THE AMERICAN COLONIES?
RICHARD HENRY LEE OR SPONGEBOB
RICHARD HENRY LEE
WHAT DID THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS DO WITH THE DECLARATION ONCE THEY SIGNED IT?
MADE COPIES TO SEND TO THE COLONIES
HAD IT PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS
SENT A COPY TO THE KING OF ENGLAND
ALL OF THE ABOVE
ALL OF THE ABOVE
HE WAS PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS WHEN THE DECLARATION WAS SIGNED. HIS SIGNATURE WAS SO LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL, HIS NAME BECAME TO MEAN A SIGNATURE.
JOHN HANCOCK OR JOHN ADAMS
JOHN HANCOCK
WHAT DID CONGRESS CUT OUT OF THOMAS JEFFERSON'S DRAFT OF THE DECLARATION?
A PARAGRAPH WRITTEN IN LATIN OR
ALL REFERENCES TO SLAVERY
ALL REFERENCES TO SLAVERY
WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SIGN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?
a) GEORGE WASHINGTON
B) JOHN HANCOCK
JOHN HANCOCK
MOST OF THE SIGNERS ACTUALLY SIGNED THE DECLARATION ON WHAT DATE?
JUNE 1, 2024 OR JULY 2, 1776
JULY 2 1776
HE WROTE "COMMOM SENSE" A 79 PAGE PAMPHLET IN WHICH HE WROTE ARGUMENTS ON THGE IDEA OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE FROM ENGLAND.
THOMAS PAINE
OR
RICHARD HENRY LEE
THOMAS PAINE
HE SIGNED AND HELPED DRAFT THE DECLARATION AND LATER BECAME THE SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JAMES MADISON
OR
JOHN ADAMS
JOHN ADAMS
"COPIES" OF THE DECLARATION, KNOWN AS THE "DUNLAP BROADSIDE" WERE NAMED AFTER JOHN DUNLAP. WHO WAS HE?
AN EARLY HISTORIAN OR
A PRINTER
A PRINTER
WHO LEFT SCHOOL EARLY TODAY?
NEVAEH
WHAT WAS THE MAIN DISH FOR LUNCH TODAY?
TACO IN A BAG
WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PRIMARY SOURCE?
NEWSPAPER
PHOTOGRAPH
DOCUMENT
DIARY
EYEWITNESS
WHAT IS THE COLOR OF MIKHAIL'S HOODIE?
GREEN
TRUE OR FALSE
ADDY BRAXSTON TUCKER STORMEY MIKHAIL AND NEVAEH VISITED THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WEBSITE?
THINK CAREFULLY!!!!
TRUE