1. Quiz Questions
Declaration of Independence For all you Patriots who want your freedom from that tyrant King George III! 1. Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence? 2. What are the 3 main ideas of the document?

2. Quiz Question 4 Principles/ideas of the Declaration of Independence
Principle 1: All people are created equal
Principle 2: All people have basic rights that cannot be taken away
Principle 3. The government gets its power to make decisions and to protect rights from the people.
Principle 4: When the government does not protect the rights of the people, the people have the right to change or remove the government.

3. Quiz Question 3 main parts of the document Natural Rights of Citizens
Complaints about King George III
Declaring 13 colonies separate from England

4. Quiz Questions
Excerpt passage on slavery, “sacred rights of life and liberty…of a distant people (by) carrying them into slavery.” The delegates compromised and took out this passage for the unity of the colonies/states.
Explain why Northern Delegates opposed the passage on slavery.
Feared merchants might be offended because they benefited from the slave trade.
Explain why Southern Delegates (S.C. & Georgia) opposed the passage on slavery.
Feared if the passage was left in it would lead to free the slaves, enslaved Africans were free labor, economy would be destroyed.

5. Quiz Questions Fill-in the following blanks.
 Every signer understood that he was committing an act of Treason against Great Britain.
If the new nation failed each of them could end up swinging from a hangman’s Rope

6. Memorize Excerpt of D.O.I.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.

7. Quiz Question
3. Using the excerpts write the meaning of the following text taken from the Declaration of Independence.
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

8. Quiz Question
4. Using the excerpts write the meaning of the following text taken from the Declaration of Independence.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

9. Quiz Question
5. Using the excerpts write the meaning of the following text taken from the Declaration of Independence.
“That whenever any form of government becomes destructive (in protecting rights and responding to the people) it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”

10. Quiz Question
6. Using the excerpts write the meaning of the following text taken from the Declaration of Independence.
“In every state of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

11. Declaration of Independence Vocabulary
Quiz Question-Match Word with Definition
Declaration of Independence Vocabulary
Match up the following words and meanings
7. Impel A. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
8. Endowed B. Fair
9. Unalienable Rights C. Agree, conquer
10. Usurpations D. Force
11.Tyranny E. Wrongful seizures of power
12.Candid F. Asked formally for correcting wrongs
13.Assent G. Provided
14.Petitioned for Redress H. Oppressive power by a government