Unit 1: Concept Checkpoint #1: Declaration of Independence

What is the Declaration of Independence?

• Britain's response to the colonists' complaints about taxes

• America's current government that we still have today that states all of our laws

• America's first official government

• America's break up letter with Britain, stating they want to be free

Select one reason why the American colonists wanted to "break up" with Great Britain

• Britain announced that Canada was a colony now

• Britain wanted to stop all taxes on the colonists

• Britain was violating some of their rights

• Britain has a new queen that the colonists hated

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Select TWO ways Great Britain was violating the rights of the American colonists.

• Forcing colonists to quarter soldiers

• Establishing taxes without their say

• Creating a new language that the colonists must learn

• Telling the colonists Canada is allowed to become a colony

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What does unalienable rights mean?

• Rights that the president can deny the people

• Rights people were born with that can NEVER be taken away

• Rights that citizens must give up for freedom & protection from the government

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Select TWO examples of Enlightenment ideas in the Declaration of Independence

• Listing natural rights of life, liberty, & property

• Saying that humans are all corrupt & selfish

• Giving more power to the people

• Allowing colonists to travel across the sea again

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Select the THREE natural rights listed in the US Declaration of Independence

• Liberty

• Life

• Pursuit of happiness

• Health

• Wealth

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What does it mean by "consent of the people"?

• It means having people's say / agreement / permission

• It means that people have no say in government decisions.

• It means people have to just do what they are told without agreeing