Declaration of Independence Quizizz Fall 2022

Which Enlightenment thinker believed that the people have the right to overthrow a tyrannical government?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

When the Government is dissolved, the People are at liberty to provide for themselves, by erecting a new Legislative... as they shall find it most for their safety and good.

—John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, 1690

What BEST explains how this idea influenced United States government?

• It encouraged people to ignore any laws that they dislike.

• It asserted people’s right to form a government that suits their needs.

• It supported the supremacy of federal laws over laws passed in the states.

• It proposed the division of government powers into three separate branches.

Which political philosopher’s ideology MOST influenced Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence?

• Baron do Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• John Locke

"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."

—The Declaration of Independence

Which statement BEST summarizes the passage?

• Governments create people's rights

• Rights existed before governments

• People must give up rights

• People only have the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of [people's rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . . —The Declaration of Independence, 1776

This excerpt is based on which philosophical argument?

• right to revolution

• civil disobedience

• authoritarian theory

• divine right of kings

Which statement identifies an idea present in the Declaration of Independence?

• Government should have unlimited authority to guarantee basic rights

• The people can overthrow a government that fails to protect basic rights

• Government should be based on a written constitution

• The people can increase government authority to expand basic rights

Which Enlightenment philosopher developed the idea of natural rights?

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Which document separated the American colonies from British rule?

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Bill of Rights

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Declaration of Independence

Which of the following did NOT contribute to tensions between American colonists and the British?

• Debt from the Seven Years War led the British to develop new taxes for the colonies

• King George III accepted the Olive Branch petition offered by the colonists

• The British required American colonists to "quarter," or house, British soldiers

• The British and American colonists fired on one another at Lexington and Concord

Who said the following?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women are created equal..."

• Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Declaration of Sentiments

• Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July

• George Mason, Declaration of Rights for Virginia