Declaration of Independence

What document did the colonists write to share their concerns with England and to break away?

• 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

Who is considered the Father of the Declaration of Independence?

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Obama

The complaints discussed in the Declaration of Independence were called?

• Complaints

• Being annoying

• Grievances

• Resolutions

How did the British policy of "salutary neglect" affect the American Colonist?

• It left American Colonists without sufficient resources to provide for their economic needs

• It required American colonist to pay heavy taxes on the crops and goods they produced.

• It allowed American colonist to govern themselves without interference from Great Britain

• It prevented American colonist from developing their own institutions of government

The Coercive Acts of 1774

Boston Port Act (closed Boston Harbor to trade),

Massachusetts Government Act (extended British control over the Massachusetts government),

Administration of Justice Act (Gave the colonial governor the power to move trails of royal officials accused of crimes in Massachusetts to another colony or Great Britain),

Quartering Act (established new provisions in all colonies for lodging British soldiers)

WHY DID AMERICAN COLONIST OBJECT TO THESE MEASURES?

• They reduced the number of British troops that protected the colonist

• They required colonist to make and carry out laws without British support

• They expanded the rights of colonist everywhere except in Massachusetts

• They eliminated the power of Massachusetts colonist to govern themselves

When was the United States Established?

• July 6th, 1775

• July 4th, 1776

• July 5th, 1776

• July 7th, 1775