US HISTORY Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence.

Vocabulary.
Pick 10 words from the Declaration that are unfamiliar. Look them up. Then, on a piece of paper, copy the sentence in the Declaration in which each unfamiliar word is used, and after the sentence write the definition of the unfamiliar word.

Comprehension
1) Which truths in the second paragraph are “self-evident.”
2) Name the three unalienable rights listed in the Declaration.
3) From what source do governments derive their “just powers?”
4) What right do people have when their government becomes destructive?
5) In the series of paragraphs beginning, “He has refused his assent,” to whom does the word “He” refer?
6) Which phrase in the Declaration expresses the colonists’ opposition to taxation without representation?
7) According to the Declaration, what powers does the US have “as Free and Independent states?”
8) List the colonies that the signers of the Declaration represented?