Declaration of Independence Review

Argued the purpose of government is to protect people's natural rights to life, liberty, and property.

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

• John Locke

First to sign the Declaration of Independence

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Hancock

• John Locke

Chosen to head the first post office of the colonies, and contributor to the Declaration of Independence.

• John Adams

• Ben Franklin

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

A plea to the king to protect colonists rights, in an attempt to avoid war.

• Mercy Rule

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Olive Branch Petition

True or False: Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense urged colonists to fight for independence.

• True

• False

City that George Washington and the new Continental Army first drove the British out of.

• Philadelphia

• Boston

• New York

• Baltimore

Colonists who wanted to fight the British for American independence were called

• Patriots

• Tories

• Loyalists

• Traitors

True or False: The introduction to a formal document is called the 'preamble'.

• True

• False

True or False: Thomas Jefferson and John Locke wrote the Declaration of Independence.

• True

• False

The committee designated to write the Declaration of Independence was called "The Committee of....

• Colonists

• Five

• Independence

• Victory