Declaration of Independence

an introduction to a document

• preamble

• grievances

• declaration

• thesis

statement in which you say you are unhappy or not satisfied with something

• grievance

• declaration

• preamble

• constitution

impossible to take away or give up

• unalienable

• endowed

• transferable

• self-evident

clearly true and requires no proof or explanation

• self-evident

• convoluted

• unalienable

• endowed

to freely or naturally provide (someone or something) with something

• divest

• dissolve

• band

• endowed

something that is stated or made known in an official or public way

• disavowal

• constitute

• declaration

• pursuit

an attempt to find, achieve or get something

• pursuit

• grieve

• retreat

• declare

author of the Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• John Adams

• George Washington

to officially end (something, such as a marriage, organization, or agreement)

• dissolve

• bond

• merge

• establish

to unite in a group

• band

• dissolve

• unshackle

• endow