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The Declaration
When, Where and What?
Hodge Podge
100
Wrote Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
100
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 is... when you want to/need to break away from your mother country, you should probably let them know and let them know why you want to break away?
100
The date the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776?
100
The men who looked at Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Who are Benjamin Franklin and John Adams?
200
Wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The meaning of, “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 is... we believe all people are equal. They have rights and are entitled to these rights. These rights (life, freedom and happiness) are given by God?
200
The city where the Declaration of Independence was written.
What is Philadelphia?
200
True or False? Common Sense was too hard for many people to read and understand during the 1770s.
What is FALSE? It was actually very accessible to the common man; many people read it and were convinced the colonies should declare independence.
300
Was elected the leader of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington
300
The meaning of, “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 is... it's the government's job to protect people's rights. If the government isn't protecting people's rights, the people should break away and start a new government?
300
The city where the Second Continental Congress met.
What is Philadelphia?
300
The group of colonial representatives that acted as the government for the American colonies.
What is The Second Continental Congress?
400
Was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
400
The meaning of, “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 is King George is treating us terribly and we have lots of proof?
400
The purpose of the Second Continental Congress (the three decisions they had to make)
What is 1). Prepare to fight a war agains the British 2). Select a leader for the Continental Army, 3). Decide whether or not to declare independence from Great Britain?
400
The unalienable rights.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
500
Said, "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
The meaning of... “(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... we officially declare that we, the colonies, no longer want to be part of Great Britain. We no longer are loyal to the king and want to eliminate all political ties with England?
500
The definition of treason.
What is betraying your own country; going to war against your own country?
500
Thomas Jefferson's age when he drafted the Declaration of Independence.
What is 33?