Formation of Government: Beginnings of the US

After the Stamp Act & Intolerable Acts, the meeting of the First Continental Congress took place. What did the Colonists decide to do about it?

• Boycott British goods

• Made their own goods

• Decided they didn't need goods

• Move back to England

According to the Declaration,  what causes a government to be just? 

• powerful institutions with money

• a Bill of Rights 

• easy to change it later

• permission form the people being governed

From whom did the signers of the Declaration of Independence receive their authority to declare independence? 

• From the King of England
• From the European nations. 
• From the people of the American colonies.
• They needed no authority.

How could the British (maybe) have prevented the American Revolution? 

• By forcing King George III to give up the throne  

• By overruling the decisions of the colonial legislatures 

• By increasing taxes on the colonists 

• By allowing colonists to elect representatives to Parliament

The Declaration of Independence is most like a what?

• Love Letter

• Treaty

• Break-up letter

• Constitution

What is the purpose of the following lines from the declaration?

"He has dissolved our legislative assemblies"

“ He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies ” “For imposing taxes on us without consent”

“ For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury”

• To justify independence by giving examples of complaints about rights violated by King George and the British government

• To give examples of complaints against the American government, asking King George III to fix them

• To request that the king protect certain rights and complain about rights that colonists didn't have

Why were the colonists being taxed so heavily by England at this time (pre-revolution)?

• To pay for the French and Indian War

• Because the King felt like it

• Because they wanted a revolution

• They owed a lot of money to China

According to the Declaration of Independence, the main purpose of a government is to-

• ensure the stability of the economy
• protect the rights of the individual
• provide strong military leadership
• protect a nation from foreign invasions

According to the Declaration of Independence, from where does government get the power to achieve its purpose?

• it is endowed (given) by nature

• from the permission of the King (or Queen)

• from the authority of Parliament

• from the consent of the governed (permission of the people)

Which of the following was the main purpose for writing the Declaration of Independence?

• convince Great Britain to stop mercantilism in North America
• force Spain to support a Revolutionary War against England
• proclaim war on Great Britain due to lack of economic rights
• state the colonists' reasons for separating from Great Britain