C4-2

Question 1

What is common sense?

Answer 1

Common sense is a 47 page pamphlet that was distributed in Philadelphia in January 1776. It was published without the author’s name.

Question 2

What did Thomas Paine argue?

Answer 2

He argued that citizens, not kings and queens, should make laws.

Question 3

What did the Declaration of Independence announce?

Answer 3

It formally announced the colonies break from Great Britain.

Question 4

What were the three main ideas expressed from the break from Great Britain?

Answer 4

1. people possess the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
2. Jefferson asserted that King George had violated the colonists’ rights by taxing them without their consent.
3. Jefferson stated that the colonies had the right to break from Britain.

Question 5

Thomas Jefferson was the main author of what document?

Answer 5

The Declaration of Independence

Question 6

Who are the Loyalists

Answer 6

The Loyalists were colonists who chose to side with the British-often called Tories