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If you wanted to see a statement about the natural rights of all Americans, what document would be BEST for you to consult?

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Federalist Papers

What event would correctly match the first date on this timeline?

• Cornwallis Surrenders at Yorktown

• The Battle of Saratoga

• The Battle of Lexington and Concord

• The Declaration of Independence

Why did the American colonists favor a representative government separate from England?

• The colonists were upset about being taxed without representation in Parliament

• The colonists felt they were not getting enough attention from the English king

• The colonists believed the King exercised too much control over their colonial representatives

• The colonists were unhappy that Parliament put too many limits on colonial government bodies

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

Declaration of Independence

Which term is the BEST definition of the word consent?

• Removal

• Understanding

• Affording

• Approval

"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, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Declaration of Independence

According to this passage from the Declaration of Independence, who gives government the power to exist?

• their creator

• the king

• the people

• their government

Loyalty to WHICH governing model was displaced by ideas advanced in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution?

• the democracy, or government by the people

• the monarchy, or rule by divine right of a king

• the dictatorship, or rule by one person with total power

• the oligarchy, or control by a small number of people

Which of these was written at the start of the American Revolution?

• The Bill of Rights

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Articles of Confederation

Which of these is a right found in the Declaration of Independence?

• "right to free speech"

• "pursuit of happiness"

• "right to health care"

• "live long and prosper"

How did the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts encourage American colonists to consider revolution against British rule?

• by ignoring American representatives in Parliament on issues of taxes imposed in the American colonies

• by raising taxes in the American colonies without granting the colonies any representation in Parliament

• by revealing the British plan to expand the American colonies farther west on the continent

• by representing an effort in Britian to end the slave trade in the colonies

The purpose of Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, was to do which of the following?

• make colonists understand Parliament's reason for taxation

• make colonists understand why they should separate from England

• make Parliament and colonists agree not to go to war

• make Parliament to sympathize with the colonists