Vocabulary
This is the document that announced that the American colonies were breaking away from Great Britain and explained why
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This was the meeting of delegates from the American colonies that began in Philadelphia in 1775. The Congress approved the Declaration of Independence and acted as the colonies’ government during the American Revolution
What was the Second Continental Congress?
This is who wrote Common Sense.
Who was Thomas Paine?
This was astudious, redheaded Virginian who was appointed to write a draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This is the meaning of "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, . . . a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
What was when people break away from a country to form their own nation, they should explain why they are doing it?
This is the state of having the same rights and privileges as others.
What is equality?
This is where the leaders met for the Second Continental Congress
What was Philadelphia?
This is why Common Sense swayed many people.
What was because it was written in simply so all could understand?
The two men help revise Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence?
Who were Benjamin Franklin and John Adams?
This is what the following means: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
What was we think these ideas are obvious. All people are equal and they have rights that cannot be taken away, such as the right to freedom and the right to live a happy life?
This is a body of mostly untrained part-time soldiers who did require military service and were available for full-time paid duty when needed.
What is militia?
This was the most urgent task for the Second Continental Congress.
What was organizing the colonies for war against Great Britian?
Thomas Paine felt it was time to do this.
What was Declare Independence from Great Britain?
This is what Jefferson had called slavery.
What was a “cruel war against human nature.” ?
This is what the following means:
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."
What was that governments are formed to protect people’s rights. People give the government its power. If the government is not protecting their rights, people can change the government?
This a Patriot volunteer who was paid and trained to be ready to fight at a minute’s notice
What are Minutemen?
What was the Continental Army and Navy.
This is why Thomas Paine felt colonists should not think of Great Britain as their parent country.
What was because parents don't make war on their families?
This was how Benjamin Franklin responded to committing treason.
What was he said “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” ?
This is what the following means, "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."
What was Britain has repeatedly messed with and destroyed the rights of the colonists, and it has ruled the American colonies unfairly. We present these facts to prove our arguments to the world.
This was the meeting of delegates from the American colonies that began in Philadelphia in 1775. The Congress approved the Declaration of Independence and acted as the colonies’ government during the American Revolution.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
This was the third and hardest task for the Second Continental Congress.
What was to decide whether to declare independence from Great Britain?
Thomas Paine thought this was possible.
This is whose signature became famous and why.
What was John Hancock because he was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence and he used big letters for the king to see easily.
This is what the following means: "(We) solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and that State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved."
What is that we are NOW an independent nation. The colonies are no longer loyal to the British King, and all connections between Britain and us have ended?