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WorksheetsThe Declaration of Independence
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 7mins
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
What are the different parts of the Declaration of Independence?
Match the following
Explains why the document was created
Preamble
Discusses fundamental human rights and governmental responsibility
Declaration of Natural Rights
Details the colonists' complaints against British King George III
List of Grievances
Declares the American colonies as independent states
Resolution of Independence
What are some of the key grievances in the Declaration of Independence?
How was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
What are "unalienable rights"?
What documents and ideas influenced Thomas Jefferson when he was writing the Declaration of Independence?
According to the Declaration of Independence who institutes or creates governments?
The King
The People
The Pope
The President
Which argument most logically follows from Jefferson's expressed ideas in the Declaration of Independence?
The rights of men should be supported over those of women.
Monarchy is a bad form of government because rulers
are not elected.
All forms of government destroy human rights and should be abandoned.
Any form of government that suppresses people's freedoms should be overthrown.
According to the Declaration of Independence, which of the following statements are among the reasons the colonies determined to break away from British rule? Choose three options.
The majority of Americans were not ethnically or culturally British.
Britain was guilty of many recent abuses of its power in the colonies.
The American and British armies had already clashed on the battlefield.
Britain interfered with the operation of the legislatures in the various colonies.
The British was too weak and undisciplined to effectively protect the colonies.
