Declaration of Ind.

The reason the _________________ met in May 1775

was to declare independence from England.

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• Founding Fathers

• Avengers

A committee of five members of Congress met to

draft a declaration of independence, and they chose _______________________________ to write the original draft.

• J. Adams

• S. Adams

• T. Paine

• T. Jefferson

Congress made about eighty changes to the draft

of the Declaration, and it struggled with the issue whether or not to put an end to _______ in the document.

• Taxes

• Slavery

• War

• Fees

In the _______________, it states that when two

groups that were previously joined must separate, that it is important for

the group who is separating to explain why it is doing so.

• List of Grievances

• Right to Rebel

• Natural Rights

• Preamble

In the Declaration, it claims that all men have the right to life, ____________, and the pursuit of happiness

• Taxes

• Parties

• Liberty

• Property

An English philosopher named

______________________ influenced the ideas of natural rights and the

ability of countries to rebel against unfair governments that are found in

the Declaration.

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Hobbs

• Voltaire

A list of _________________ against the King of England can be found in the third part of the Declaration.

• Arguments

• Grievances

• Complaints

• Issues

1. In the last paragraph of the Declaration, the men who signed the document pledged their lives, their _____________________________, and their sacred honor to secure the liberty of the new country

• fortunes

• children

• land

• soul

In what year was The Declaration of Independence written?

• 1775

• 1776

• 1787

• 1789

Who were the men who comprised the “committee of five?”

• Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston,

  and Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, John Adams,

  and Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, John Hancock, Robert Livingston,

  and Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Hancock, Robert Livingston, and

  Benjamin Franklin