Chapter 5 Lesson 3: Declaring Independence

a written request for rights or benefits

• treason

• rally

• petition

• independence

an army of paid soldiers from the thirteen colonies

• Red Coats

• Continental Army

• Committee of Correspondence

• Continental Congress

a freedom established by law

• rights

• auction block

• treason

• petition

freedom from rule by others

• preamble

• quartering

• independence

• acts

the crime of betraying ones country

• medal of honor

• independence

• treason

• olive branch

How did the Congress plan to become independent from Great Britain?

• They wrote a letter to the king to ask for their independence.

• They wrote a document that would declare their reasons for independence.

• They voted on whether the colonies should be independent from Great Britain.

• They declared war on Great Britain

What three unalienable rights did Thomas Jefferson include in the Declaration of Independence?

• no taxation, free trade, self rule

• peace, equality, free speech

• life, liberty, pursuit of happiness

• education, land, defense

Who signed the Declaration of Independence?

• King George III of Great Britain

• Thomas Paine

• members of the Declaration of Independence Committee

• each member of the Second Continental Congress

Why did the Second Continental Congress send the Olive Branch Petition to King George III?

• The Congress believed that war with Great Britain was bound to happen.

• The Congress wanted to warn the king of the new alliance between the colonies and France.

• The Congress hoped for a peaceful outcome to the colonies’ disputes with Great Britain.

• The Congress asked the king to come live in the colonies.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• John Hancock

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin