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Question 1

What was the purpose of the olive branch petition?

Answer 1

It was a treatie To ask king George for peace between the colonies

Question 2

How did king George react to the petition

Answer 2

He ignored it

Question 3

Who was Thomas Paine

Answer 3

He published a pamphlet called common sense which persuaded thousands of colonists that independence was the key to a brighter future

Question 4

What was the common sense how did it impact people in the colonies

Answer 4

A pamphlet that Thomas Paine wrote which persuaded colonists that independence was the key to a brighter future

Question 5

Who made the descion to write the Declaration of Independence

Answer 5

Contental congress

Question 6

Who was put in charge of writing the declarition of independence

Answer 6

Thomas Jefferson

Question 7

What was the purpose of writing the Declaration of Independence

Answer 7

To declare independence

Question 8

What was the date the declaration was ratified

Answer 8

July 4 1776

Question 9

What are natural rights

Answer 9

Rights that you were born with given by god and cannot be taken away

Question 10

What are the four parts of the declaration of independence

Answer 10

Preamble
Basic rights of the people
wrongs done by king george the third
colonists declare independence

Question 11

Who is blamed for making the goverment tyrannical What does a trynical mean

Answer 11

King George the thrid

A harsh and unfair use of power by the goverment

Question 12

What were three complants that the colonists had

Answer 12

King unfairly used his powers
Taxed colonists without them having a say
tried to control the laws made in the colonies

Question 13

What did the 56 signers of the declaration of independence pledge in order to fight for independence

Answer 13

Life, money and honor

Question 14

What was the enlightment period

Answer 14

It was the age of reason it was the time in life when everyone started using reasoning and science instead of just using religion and beliving in what the church says

Question 15

What is one belief of Baron de Montesquieu

Answer 15

Each government should make sure there is a way that each branch does not get to powerful(checks and balances)

Question 16

What is one belief of Jean Jacques Rousseau

Answer 16

People are born good but does wrong by socitey and majority rules

Question 17

state three ideas of the enlightment philoshper john locke found in the D of I

Answer 17

All men are equal
Everyone is born with natrual rughts that cant be taken away
The peoples rights are life liberty and property

Question 18

WE hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal

Answer 18

race dont matter we are all equal

Question 19

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to disasolve political bands which have connected them to another

Answer 19

somwtimes people need to break away from the goverfemnt

Question 20

…..that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienble rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Answer 20

Everyone is given rights given by their creator that no one can take away

Question 21

That to sescure these rights, govermnets are unstitued among men, derving their just power from the consent of the governed

Answer 21

the government protects the peoples rights and the government gets it power from the poeple

Question 22

That whenever any form of govenment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the rights of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new goverment

Answer 22

if the gornment abuses the citezens have the rights to get rid of or make a new goverment

Question 23

Pruduce indeed will dicate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes

Answer 23

government should not be changed unless there is a majoir reason