Revolution

Question 1

Declaration meaning:

Answer 1

Formal statement or announcement

Question 2

January 1776, what was distributed throughout the colonies and who wrote it?

Answer 2

Common sense by thomas paine

It was telling the colonists that it was ¨common sense¨ to break away and be independent from England.

Question 3

Who was john locke and what did he do? Quiz

Answer 3

John locke was someone from the time of enlightenment and said that the natural rights of man are ¨Life, liberty, and property¨ which was edited to be ¨life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness¨ to go in the Declaration of independence.

Question 4

Why was Life, Liberty, and the property changed?

Answer 4

Thomas Jefferson wanted to make a page attacking slavery (whilst having slaves) and ben franklin told him to cut it out as they needed all the support they could get so he changed property into the pursuit of happiness in light of it

Question 5

What are all of john lockes ideas? (quiz)

Answer 5

• LIfe, liberty, property (pursuit of happiness)
• People form governments to protect these rights
• If governments interfere with these rights, the people have the right to overthrow them

Question 6

Order of the Declaration of independence? (quiz)

Answer 6

1. Preamble
2. Declaration of natural rights
   3 List of grievances
3. Resolution of independence

Question 7

Preamble:

Answer 7

• First part of declaration of independence
• The introduction
• Explains why the 2nd Continental congress wrote the Declaration of independence

Question 8

Declaration of natural rights:

Answer 8

• Second part of declaration of independence. lists the rights of the citizens
• Explains that in a republic. the government is there to protect the rights of the people
• Jefferson calls these rights UNALIENABLE rights, which means they can never be taken away

Question 9

List of grievances:

Answer 9

• Third part of the declaration of independence
• List of the colonists complaints with england
• They specifically blame king george the third
• There are 27 grievances, or complaints, that are listed in this section of the declaration of independence

Question 10

Resolution of independence:

Answer 10

• Final part of the declaration of independence
• Declares that the colonies are ¨free and independent states¨
• Includes the signatures of the signers of the declaration of independence

Question 11

Who mainly wrote the Declaration of independence? (quiz)

Answer 11

Thomas jefferson

Question 12

Why did John hancock write his name first and large? (quiz)

Answer 12

He was the president of the 2nd continental congress and the first to sign the Declaration

Question 13

Where did each of the members of the committee of 5 come from?

Answer 13

Ben Franklin: Pennsylvania
John adams: Massachusetts 
Thomas Jefferson: Virginia 
Roger sherman; Connecticut 
Robert livingstone: New York

Question 14

All who signed the declaration of independence knew what?

Answer 14

If the war was lost they would be tried of treason and hung

Question 15

Main idea of DOI:

Answer 15

Governments should be based on the consent of the governed

Question 16

Main purpose of DOI:

Answer 16

Justify the colonists revolt against England

Question 17

¨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.–That 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, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed¨
is from what?

Answer 17

Preamble

Question 18

When was DOI signed?

Answer 18

July 4, 1776

Question 19

When was the DOi signed by ALL 50 present members of congress

Answer 19

August 2 1776