Declaration of Independence Quotes Quiz

“All men are created equal.”

• Everyone has the same value and rights.

• Only some people are important.

• All men should be the same height.

• Men are smarter than women.

“They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”

• People are given rights by the government.

• People are born with rights that cannot be taken away.

• Rights can be taken away during war.

• Only religious people have rights.

“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

• People should enjoy life, be free, and try to be happy.

• People should do whatever makes them rich.

• People should serve the king.

• Happiness is guaranteed by law.

“To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.”

• Government’s main job is to protect people’s rights.

• Governments give people their rights.

• Government exists to make laws for the king.

• Men should rule over women.

“Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

• The people give the government permission to rule.

• The king gives power to the government.

• Governments can take power without asking.

• Only soldiers can give power to a government.

“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive… it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it.”

• People must obey the government no matter what.

• People can change or replace a government that fails to protect rights.

• Only leaders can change the government.

• Governments should be destroyed regularly.

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

• The king has not approved important laws.

• The people have refused to follow laws.

• The government is making too many laws.

• The king is writing new laws.

“He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly.”

• The king keeps shutting down colonial governments.

• The king built more houses.

• People dissolved their own government.

• The colonies stopped paying taxes.

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.”

• Colonists had to pay taxes they didn’t vote on.

• Colonists refused to pay taxes.

• Taxes were too high for the British.

• The king lowered taxes without asking.

“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury.”

• People were denied fair trials.

• People didn’t want juries.

• Juries were too expensive.

• Trials took too long.