Vocabulary
A place that is ruled from far away by a parent country
What is a colony?
The number of stars on the first flag
What is 13?
It said that people had rights that the king could not take away
What is the Magna Carta?
He mostly wrote the Declaration
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
He is who our nation's capital is named after
Who is George Washington?
Money people pay to a government for services such as roads, police and fire departments
What are taxes?
This is what the stars on the first American flag represent
What is the original colonies?
It said that colonists in Jamestown would have the same rights as people living in England
What are the Charters of the Virginia Company?
We celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence on this day
What is July 4th?
Jefferson wrote in the Declaration that all men were created this
What is equal?
This a Declaration word that means obvious or clearly
What is a self-evident?
This country's flag is what the American flag is originally based on
What is England?
This document established a tradition of self-government in the colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This word in the Declaration means permanent or unchangeable
What is unalienable?
It what John Locke called rights that people are born with and that governments cannot take away
What are natural rights?
This is a word in the Declaration that means given
What is the endowed?
This is the woman that sewed the first American flag
Who is Betsy Ross?
Written by George Mason of Virginia, it served as a model for the Bill of Rights
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet that convinced many colonists that a break from England was inevitable
What is "Common Sense"?
It was the war that caused the Revolutionary War
What is the French and Indian War?
This is loyalty to one's country
What is patriotism?
The number of stars and stripes on our current flag
What is 50 stars and 13 stripes?
Written by Thomas Jefferson, it helped create a tradition in the US of a separation between church and state
What is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
These are the three rights that the Declaration states that all Americans have
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
He was one other person on the Declaration writing committee besides Thomas Jefferson
Who is John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, or Roger Livingston?