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Proclamation of the Declaration of Independence

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain un alienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Two resolutions brought to the Continental Congress by Richard Henry Lee

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  1. American colonies’ separation from Great Britain
  2. Formation of a new government
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What did the Declaration of Independence announce to the world?

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That a new kind of nation had been born.

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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin

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What is the Declaration of Independence?

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It’s a legal document that states the rights of American people to choose their own government

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Statement of the Declaration of Independence

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When a government becomes oppressive or abusive, it is the right of the people to throw off such government and provide standards for their future security

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Unalienable rights *

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Rights that cannot be taken away

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Purpose of the Declaration of Independence

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State it’s desire to dissolve all political associations the colonies had with the British Crown

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Three unalienable rights people have according to the Declaration of Independence

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Life
Liberty
Pursuit of happiness

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Liberties the Bill of Rights guarantees

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Freedom of speech
Freedom of press
Freedom of religion

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Definition of ravaged

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To wreak havoc on

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Definition of usurpation

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To seize and hold in possession by force or without right

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Definition of arbitrary

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Ruling by absolute authority

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Definition of insurrection

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Violent uprising against an authority or government

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Definition of relinquish

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To give over possession or control of

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Choose an amendment and explain it. Why is it important for the amendment to be protected by the Constitution and for the people?

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Amendment 4
No person or their possessions shall be searched or seized without a probable cause. We should protect this right because it protects all of us from being falsely accused and wrongfully convicted by the government. It also protects our belongings from being search without consent. It requires the government to have evidence of the probable cause for which you are being convicted.

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When was the Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress?

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On July 4th, 1776

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Increased duties on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies

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The Sugar Act

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Banned the issue of paper bills or bills of credit because of the belief that the colonial currency had devalued British currency

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The Currency Act

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Ordered colonists to house and feed British soldiers if there was not enough room for them in barracks

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The Quartering Act

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Collected taxes on items made of paper such as legal documents, newspaper, and even cards. The first direct tax imposed by Britain

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The Stamp Act

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Series of acts that involve taxing the colonies to raise revenue for Great Britain. It taxed goods such as glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea.

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The Townshed Acts

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Gave the British East India Company a monopoly to trade tea in America

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The Tea Act

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Protest that occurred due to Britain’s “taxation without representation” to the colonies, where a group of colonists dressed as Indigenous people and dumped tea from the three ships into the Boston Harbor. It was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.
It showed that Americans would not tolerate taxation and tyranny, and rallied patriots across the 13 colonies to fight for independence.

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The Boston Tea Party

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Placed numerous restrictions (four laws) on the colonists including the closing of the Boston Harbor as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. It was an attempt to reimpose strict British control over the American colonies.

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The Intolerable Acts

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Unalienable *

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Not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied

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Despotism

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The exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way

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Prudence

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The ability to govern and discipline oneself by use of reason; cautiousness 

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Candid

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Expressing opinions and feelings in an honest and sincere way

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Annihilation

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The state or fact of being completely destroyed or obliterated

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Jurisdiction

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A system of law courts; a judicature; power or authority

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Disavow

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To deny responsibility for; to refuse to acknowledge or accept

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Proclamation*

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An official formal public announcement

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Acquisition

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Something or someone acquired or gained

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Reconcile

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To find a way of making (two different ideas, facts, etc.) exist or be true at the same time

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Documentary

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A presentation (such as a film or novel) expressing or dealing with factual events

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Abridging

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To shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense

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Infringed

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Break a law, rule, or agreement; reduce someone’s legal rights or freedom

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Infamous

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Well-known for being bad: known for evil acts or crimes

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Jeopardy

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Exposure to or imminence of death, loss, or injury

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Compensation

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Something, typically money, awarded to someone as a recompense for loss, injury, or suffering

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Acquiesce

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To agree without protest

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Inflicted

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Impose something unwelcome on

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Construed

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Interpret (a word or action) in a particular way

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Tyranny

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A government in which absolute power is vested in a single ruler; oppressive power; cruel and oppressive government or rule

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Ratified

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To approve and sanction formally; sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid

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Amendment *

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The process of altering or amending a law or document (such as a constitution) by parliamentary or constitutional procedure

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Who drafted the Declaration of Independence?

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John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Livingston
Roger Sherman

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How did Jefferson serve under the ruling of George Washington?

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He served as first secretary

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How did Jefferson serve under the ruling of John Adams?

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He served as Vice President

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When was Jefferson elected the third president of the US?

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In the year 1800

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Which are the first three presidents of the US?

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  1. George Washington
  2. John Adams
  3. Thomas Jefferson
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What did Jefferson use the Louisiana Purchase acquisition for?

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To double the size of the country

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What did the bill that Jefferson wrote establish?

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It established religious freedom

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Fact

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Jefferson wrote much of the document, and the committee then took three days to discuss and amend the draft.

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DOI statement

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It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them

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DOI statement

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Declare the causes which impel them to the separation

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DOI statement

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Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

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DOI statement

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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 a new government

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DOI statement

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Governments long-established should not be changed for light and transient causes

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DOI statement

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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to write themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed

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DOI statement

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When a long train of abuses, reduces them under absolute despotisms, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security

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DOI statement

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A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people

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DOI statement

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We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation; and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends

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DOI statement

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The United States colonies are absolved from all allegiances to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved

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DOI statement

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As free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do

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