Unalienable Rights
These are what Thomas Jefferson described as unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Correctly use siege in a sentence.
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This is how life changed for enslaved Africans after the Revolutionary War.
What is it did not change?
This is the part of the Declaration of Independence that many Americans felt was not true in 1776.
What is "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."?
Correctly use propaganda in a sentence.
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These 3 people were the main writers of the Declaration of Independence. (200 extra points if you can correctly name ALL FIVE writers)
Who are Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston?
These two people were some of the most helpful/significant members of George Washington's staff.
Who were Alexander Hamilton and Marquis de Lafayette?
Correctly use civilian in a sentence.
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This is an economic consequence of America's victory in the war.
What is America must establish a trustworthy and stable financial system?
Correctly use justify in a sentence.
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Britain did not allow the American colonies to trade with other countries for this reason.
What is they wanted to be the only ones to profit from trade with America?
This was the result of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Britain won the land, but Americans proved themselves by causing many casualties.
This is a social consequence of America's victory in the war.
What is Loyalists became social exiles and began to leave America?
This is how the Declaration of Independence was influential outside of America's borders.
What is it inspired other countries to declare independence against their oppressive governments?
Use emancipation in a sentence.
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The representatives of the Continental Congress limited the power given to the federal government in the Articles of Confederation for this reason.
What is they wanted their new government to be different from the British government and wanted states to be able to govern themselves?
This strategy led to an American victory at Yorktown.
What is laying siege with the help of the French Navy?
This is how the Declaration of Independence continues to influence American society.
What is people and lawmakers continue to fight to make the sure the words in the Declaration are true for all Americans?
These are the political consequences of America's victory in the war.
What is America is no longer being ruled by Parliament and must govern itself?
This is the definition for the Articles of Confederation.
What is America's first governing document which outlined the powers of the federal government and how states should be governed?
These are 3 ways that Britain violated the unalienable rights of American colonists before the war began. Each example is worth 250 points.
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During the war, some Native Americans sided with the British because the Proclamation of 1763 said this.
What is Americans cannot settle west of the Appalachians because the Natives already lived there?
This is how life changed for the Native Americans after the Revolutionary War. (2 answers worth 250 each)
What is they continued having to fight for their land/were eventually forced onto reservations and civil war amongst the nations in the Iroquois League?
This is what America gained in the Treaty of Paris. 4 answers worth 150 points each.
What is independence, access to fisheries in Canada, shared access to trade via the MS River, western border set @ MS river?
This is how the Continental Congress limited the power of the federal government in the Articles of Confederation. 3 answers worth 200 points each.
What are:
1) Can wage war but can't draft fighters?
2) Can pass laws but can't enforce them?
3) Cannot collect taxes?