8th Grade Lesson 6 Vocabulary

Rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law.

• independence

• petition

• Common Sense

• natural rights

A pamphlet published in 1776 by Thomas Paine that persuaded many American colonists to support independence.

• Common Sense

• petition

• natural rights

• Declaration of Independence

Freedom from control by another government or country.

• natural law

• petition

• independence

• Declaration of Independence

A formal, written request made to an official person or organization.

• independence

• petition

• natural rights

• Common Sense

The document written to declare the American colonies as an independent nation, free from British rule.

• natural law

• Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

• petition