Declaration of Independence Scavenger Hunt Part 1

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

• July 4, 1775

• July 4, 1776

• July 4, 1783

• July 4, 2000

What word shows that the 13 colonies are all in agreement on this?

• dissolve

• self-evident

• united

• unalienable

What is the "Course of human events?"

• history

• unalienable

• self-evident

• dissolve

What word does Jefferson use in opening of the second paragraph that means "obvious"?

• truths

• self-evident

• endowed

• unalienable

According to the Declaration of Independence, all men are created __________________.

Jefferson uses the word ________________ to describe rights (from God) that cannot be taken away.

What three basic rights do all men have?

• liberty, money, & the pursuit of happiness

• life, money & property

• life, liberty & property

• life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness

Who institutes, or creates, government?

• men, people

• politicians

• women, children

• the King & Parliment

The government gets its power from the consent of the ________________.

The government should be changed or altered when government becomes _______________.