DOI Quiz

Organize these options into the right categories of whether they happened or not

Groups:

(a) True

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(b) False

• torched their farms and capital city

• made the military above the law

• made them give shelter to the army

• moved in and kicked the president out

• cut off trade with the world

• Gave a 1000% tax on spices

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) True

,

(b) False

• held trials to hang the colonists

• refuse to approve laws meant to elect judges

• sent officers to harass the people

• had the armies make them vote on uncomfortable days

• made them go overseas to be tried for fake charges

• made the Natives share their supplies and go to war with them

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

The Declaration of Independence is most like a what?

• Love Letter

• Treaty

• Break-up letter

• Constitution

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

• powerful institutions
• a Bill of Rights 
• ease of altering 
• Consent of the people being governed

What are the three inalienable rights that all people have?

• Food, Shelter, and Clothing
• Life, Liberty and Death
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

What are unalienable rights?

• Rights that government cannot take away

• Rights that government takes away

• rights for aliens

• Government is needed to promote equality

The List of Grievances were the part of the Declaration that

• detailed the colonists' complaints with King George.
• listed a man's natural rights.
• introduced the Declaration.
• concluded the Declaration, declaring America a free country.