Declaration of Independence Vocabulary Practice

"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,..."

What does the term 'dissolve' mean?

• To make disappear; to end

• Obvious, clear

• Not capable of being taken away

• Created

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7.CG.1.6

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."

What does the term 'self-evident' mean?

• To make disappear; to end

• Obvious, clear

• Not capable of being taken away

• Created

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7.CG.1.6

"...that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

What does the term 'unalienable' mean?

• To make disappear; to end

• Obvious, clear

• Not capable of being taken away

• Created

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7.CG.1.6

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men."

What does the term 'instituted' mean?

• To make disappear; to end

• Obvious, clear

• Not capable of being taken away

• Created

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7.CG.1.6

"deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

What does the term 'derive' mean?

• To make disappear; to end

• Obvious, clear

• Not capable of being taken away

• To obtain; to get

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7.CG.1.6

"deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

What does the term 'consent' mean?

• To make disappear; to end

• agreement; to give permission

• Not capable of being taken away

• To obtain; to get

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7.CG.1.6

"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it"

What does the term 'alter' mean?

• to change

• to protect

• to start; to create

• to stay the same

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7.CG.1.6

"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it..."

What does the term 'abolish' mean?

• to change

• to end; to get rid of

• to start; to create

• to stay the same

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7.CG.1.6

"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."

What does the term 'usurpation' mean?

• a soldier who fights for money

• a goal

• truthful; straightforward; frank

• a wrongful taking of someone's rights

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7.CG.1.6

"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."

What does the term 'tyranny' mean?

• power to the people

• a cruel and oppressive government; a power exercised without legal right

• truthful; straightforward; frank

• to shelter troops in provate homes

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7.CG.1.6