Unit 6 Review: Declaration of Independence

Select the false statement(s).

• The Second Continental Congress is a singing group.

• King George III was a member of the Second Continental Congress.

• All of the members of the Second Continental Congress were loyalists.

• All of the members of the Second Continental Congress were Patriots.

• The Second Continental Congress is a group of men who created the American Government.

____ introduced the idea of a social contract between the government and the people.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

Select the false statement(s) about this cartoon.

• Benjamin Franklin drew this cartoon to unite the 13 colonies to fight against the French during the French and Indian War.

• Benjamin Franklin drew this cartoon to unite the 13 colonies to fight against the British during the American Revolution.

• Each part of the snake represents the colonies.

• George Washington drew this cartoon to show the colonists how to unite as one unit to fight the British.

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A social contract is an agreement between the government and the people.

• True

• False

Who are the founding fathers?

• Thomas Paine

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Locke

Select the events that took place before the Declaration of Independence.

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Treaty of Paris 1783

• The Battle of Yorktown

• The Olive Branch Petition

• The Proclamation of 1763.

Liberty means . . .

• Freedom

• Injustice

• Loyalty

• Life

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are all . . .

• natural rights

• ideas written in Common Sense, by Thomas Paine

• laws

In the Conclusion of the Declaration of Independence, the colonists . . .

• end their relationship with Britain

• try to make peace

• make a list of 27 demands

• ask Britain for an apology

Common Sense is a pamphlet that was written to encourage the colonists to remain loyal to Britain.

• True

• False