Study Guide for American History test over the Declaration of Independence
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| What are the four main parts of the Declaration of Independence? | Preamble, Declaration of Natural Rights,
List of Grievances,Resolution of Independence by the United States
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| Why did the colonists feel like they had to declare the causes that forced them to seek separation from England? | Because they had a decent respect for the opinions of mankind
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| What two truths does the Declaration say are self-evident? | "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"
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| What are the unalienable rights the Declaration says we have? | "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
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| According to the Declaration, who gave us these rights? | "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"
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| Why is it important that you got your rights from the Creator, or because you are a human, and not from a government? | if you got these rights from a government, the government would be able to take them away
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| Why are governments set up? | "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men"
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| What does it mean when we say that governments are to secure our rights? | they are to PROTECT our rights
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| Where do governments get their power according to the Declaration? | "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
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| What two things should people do when a government becomes destructive to the basic rights of its people? | "it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"
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| What are people doing to their government if they are altering it? | changing it
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| What are people doing to their government if they are abolishing it? | throwing it out, completely changing it, destroying it,
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| What should the people do if they alter, or abolish, their government? | create a new one
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| People have the right to do what two things when their government continually abuses them and takes away their rights? | "it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,
and to provide new Guards for their future security"
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| The colonists claimed the king called legislative bodies together at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant to public records for what purpose? | "for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures"
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| What does the word "fatiguing" mean? | tiring them out
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| Why did the king dissolved the colonial legislatures? | "for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people" (for standing up to him)
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| The Declaration complains about the Kings use of the military by saying "he has kept among us, in times of peace" | "Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures"
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| The Declaration complains about the Kings use of the military by saying "he has affected to render the Military" | "independent of and superior to the Civil power"
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| The Declaration complains about the Kings use of the military by saying he as Quartered... | "large bodies of armed troops among us"
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| The Declaration complains about the Kings use of the military by saying he has protected them, "by ___?___, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States" | by mock trial
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| What kind of trial is a mock trial? | a FAKE trial
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| The Declaration complains about the Kings use of the military by saying "he is at this time transporting..." | "large Armies of foreign Mercenaries
to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny"
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| what became a rallying cry for the colonists when the king imposed taxes on them without their consent? | No Taxation Without Representation
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| The Declaration accuses the king of taking colonial citizens captive on the high seas and forcing them do what? | "to bear Arms against their Country,
to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren"
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| How have the colonist’s most humble petitions for relief from these oppressions been answered by the king? | "Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury"
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| What does the Declaration conclude about this prince/king whose actions makes him a tyrant? | he is "is unfit to be the ruler of a free people"
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| What do these representatives from the united States of America call upon the Supreme Judge of the world for? | "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions"
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| What does "rectitude of our intentions" mean? | the rightness, or correctness, of our actions,
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| What does the document conclude ought to happen to the political connections between the colonies and the British Crown? | "is and ought to be totally dissolved"
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| Who did the signers of this document rely on for protection? | "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence"
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| What did the signers of the document mutually pledge to each other for the support of this Declaration of Independence? | "we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
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| When the signers pledged their "sacred honor" to each other, what did that mean? | they put their names and reputations on the line
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| What does the word "self-evident" mean in the Declaration? | that something is so obvious that it doesn’t need proof or explanation?
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| What is a likely reason why the word "united" is not capitalized in the Declaration? | the colonies, that would become states, had not "united" yet into one country, they wee individual colonies taking action with other colonies
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