How Did The Colonists Justify Their War Of Independence? Question Preview (ID: 55361)


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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
a) Ben Franklin
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) George Washington
d) Alexander Hamilton

Which is a correct description of the preamble?
a) Statement of beliefs
b) List of complaints against the king
c) Petition for the king to change his ways
d)

What is one example of Natural Rights in the DoI?
a) The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations
b) When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
c) endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
d)

What is an example of the right to revolt in the DoI?
a) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
b) When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
c) Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
d)

What is an example of the social contract in the DoI?
a) He has cut off our trade from the rest of the world.
b) The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct obje
c) That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governe
d)

What is a greivance?
a) Complaint
b) Song lyric
c) Poem
d)

Which Enlightenment thinker's influence is most evident in the preamble of the DoI?
a) Thomas Hobbes
b) John Locke
c) Voltaire
d)

The Enlightenment focused on the use of
a) science
b) reason
c) reason
d)

The social contract says that the government derives its power from the people. What does derive mean?
a) obtains; refers to the origin of something
b) agreeing; having the agreement of all
c) to freely or naturally provide
d)

What does popular sovereignty mean?
a) The people have the right to throw off a government that is forced upon them
b) the people have the power
c) rights that are not bound by a particular culture or government
d)

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