Declaration of Independence Breakdown!

Declaration of Independence Breakdown!

​Read each slide to answer the questions correctly!

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Today you will do all of the following EXCEPT!!!

• Read to answer questions

• Identify definitions

• Write about the Declaration of Independence

• Draw a picture of Thomas Jefferson

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What is a declaration?

• an official announcement

• natural, given at birth

• overthrowing the government

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What does unalienable mean?

• an official announcement

• natural, given at birth

• overthrowing the government

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What is a revolution?

• an official announcement

• natural, given at birth

• overthrowing the government

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What was the Continental Congress?

• Delegates from all the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia to discuss what to do about Great Britain.

• Delegates from half of the 13 Colonies meet to decide whether to move across the Appalachian Mountains.

• A secret club George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin belonged to!

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Who had all the power in Europe's monarchies?

• Royalty and nobility

• the People

• Companies

• B

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Who had all the power in the brand new US Republic?

• Royalty and nobility

• the People

• Companies

• government

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What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

• to apologize to the king for the Boston Tea Party

• to declare the colonies independence from Great Britain

• to write Parliament to abolish slavery

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Who was the European philosopher that Jefferson got ideas from?

• John Locke

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

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According to Locke, all humans had --

• natural rights

• unnatural rights

• taxation rights

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According to John Locke, when could the people of a country start a revolution and overthrow their government?

• when the King was far away

• when the government taxed them

• when the government no longer protected the people's rights

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What was Thomas Paine's main argument in his book Common Sense?

• The colonies should be independent from Great Britain

• The colonies should remain loyal to Great Britain

• The King should apologize to the colonists

• A

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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• T

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Which part do you think is the most important in the Declaration of Independence?

• All people have rights and governments should protect those rights

• List of grievances against the King

• We are declaring our independence from Great Britain!

The Impact of the US Declaration of Independence​

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​Find one other country with a declaration of Independence.

​Be ready to record the name and the date of independence for that country!

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What was one country you saw that had a Declaration of Independence?

What year was it signed?

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