People
Jeffersons writing in the declaration of independence was influenced by him more than anyone else.
Thomas Jefferson said in the declaration of independence that the role of the government was this.
What is to secure our inalienable rights?
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
The first person to sign the Declaration of Independence __________________, wrote his name so big that the king could see it from ____________, without wearing his glasses. Who was this?
_____________________ wrote Common Sense and helped the colonists realize that they could govern themselves instead of being controlled by Britain.
On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a "_________________________", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.
What is a committee of 5?
that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ___________________ rights, that among these are _________, __________ and ___________________________.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the _____________________.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Members of the _________________________ signed the Declaration of Independence.
levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce
it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation
Stamp Act
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
First Continental Congress meets (first time)
French and Indian War
Intolerable Acts
2nd continental congress meets (first time)
Thomas Paine writes common sense
Proclamation of 1763
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Boston Tea Party
Treaty of Paris ends the American revolution
Declaration of Independence is signed
__________________ told the delgates that they no longer owed loyalty to the King , and he called for a resolution.
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The _____________ soldier and the _________________ patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”