Ch. 6 vocab

rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law

• petition

• independence

• natural rights

• common sense

a formal, written request made to an official person or oganization

• natural rights

• petition

• common sense

• independence

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

• independence

• natural rights

• petition

• Declaration of Independence

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

• common sense

• Declaration of Independence

• petition

• natural rights

freedom from control by another government or country

• independence

• common sense

• petition

• natural rights