Deceleration of Independence Check

Match the Grievances

• He has denied the people their rightful representation in government

• He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only

• He has refused to sign bills that would benefit the community

• He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures

• He has disrupted the legislative process to maintain control

• He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them

• He has neglected to address urgent matters that affect the citizens

• He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good

Match the Greivences

• He kept his army in the colonies during

• He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries

• He made judges rely on him for their job

• He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people

• He created many new government positions

• He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance

• He would shut down colonial governments

• He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures

Reorder the following in chronological order.

• Boston Tea Party

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

• Township Act

• Intolerable Acts

• The French and Indian War

Rights that cannot be taken away.

• Declaration of Rights

• English Bill of Rights

• Bill of Rights

• Unalienable Rights

Select the rights included in your Unalienable Rights

• Life

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Liberty

• Due Process

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are examples of what?

• Individual Rights

• Bill of Rights

• Unalienable Rights

• English Bill of Rights