SOL 2b Founding Documents

What document served as a model for the Bill of Rights?

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

What document listed grievances against the king of England?

• United States Constitution

• Magna Carta

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

What document created the first national government for the United States?

• Articles of Confederation

• Charters of the Virginia Company

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

What document established the idea that everyone is subject to the law?

• Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Charters of the Virginia Company

What document guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to colonists?

• Declaration of Independence

• Charters of the Virginia Company

• Magna Carta

• Constitution of the United States

What document establishes the structure of the current U.S. government?

• U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Charters of the Virginia Company

• Articles of Confederation

What document affirmed the idea that all people are created equal?

• U.S. Constitution

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

What document created a weak central government?

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

• Charters of the Virginia Company

• Declaration of Independence

Why was the Declaration of Independence written?

• to explain why the colonies were separating from Great Britain

• the start the American Revolution

• to offer a peace settlement to Great Britain.

• to instruct how a county wins its freedom.

What are the first ten amendments of the Constitution called?

• A menu

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta