COMMON SENSE AND DECLARATION

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This pamphlet led most directly to which of the following?
Options:
Constitutional Convention,
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,
Declaration of Independence,
Bill of Rights

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Declaration of Independence

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A historian could best use this pamphlet to study which of the following?
arguments in favor of absolutism,
justifications for the American Revolution,
advice on running households in colonial America,
British responses to colonial protests

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justifications for the American Revolution

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Which document includes the passage: "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,..."?

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Declaration of Independence

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This passage demonstrates that Thomas Jefferson was directly influenced by the

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ideas of John Locke

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In his pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine urged American colonists to

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establish their own nation

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Which action by the British government was considered by American colonists to be a violation of their rights as Englishmen? Options: making treaties with Native American Indians, protecting the colonies from foreign invasion, failing to enforce the Navigation Acts, taxing the colonies without representation in Parliament

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taxing the colonies without representation in Parliament

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The results of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) led to the independence movement in the thirteen colonies because the British

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began imposing new taxes on the colonists

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The Declaration of Independence contains a

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statement of grievances against the King of England

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The main purpose for writing the Declaration of Independence was to

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state the colonists’ reasons for separating from Great Britain

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The colonists’ slogan, “No taxation without representation,” expresses a belief in

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the consent of the governed