Declaration of Independence

What document did the colonists write to break away from England?

• Mayflower Compact

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

What are unalienable rights?

• Rights that government cannot take away

• Rights that government takes away

• rights for aliens

• Government is needed to promote equality

Where does government get their power?

• God

• Elected officials

• The people

• The President

If people want to change the government, which ideal from the DOI does that represent?

• Self-evident

• alter or abolish government

• Consent of the governed

• Unalienable rights

Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense that the King was...

• Killing immigrants

• Not allowing people to practice their religion

• Taking away political rights

• Killing other races

Who is the main author of the Declaration?

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Obama

The complaints discussed in the Declaration were called

• Complaints

• Being annoying

• Grievances

• Resolutions

Which section of the Declaration tells us that all men are created equal?

• Natural Rights

• Grievances

• Preamble

• Resolution

self-evident

• obvious

• thinking about oneself

• a complaint

• to get rid of

life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• Separation of powers

• alien's rights

• Checks and balances

• unalienable rights