Declaration of Independence 8 Quiz
Click on the radio button in front
of the sentence that best matches the main idea. Your score will appear after
you answer the last question.
1.
Which sentence matches this main idea?
Our continual requests have been met with mistreatment.
2.
Which sentence matches this main idea?
His Royal Highness who behaves as a cruel ruler is not fit to lead citizens
with freedom.
3.
Which sentence matches this main ide?
We have spoken to them strongly about their law making bodies trying to place
their authority over our citizens.
4.
Which of these sentences matches this main idea?
We have aksed them in all fairness to think about what we have in common.and
to give up these acts that threaten to separate us.
5.
Which sentence matches this main idea>
Those of us who speak for the people state that these colonies are to be free
of the King's rule and have the right to govern ourselves.
37. In every stage of these Oppressions
We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms:
38. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
39. 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.
40. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.
41. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to
extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
42. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement
here.
43. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured
them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which,
would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
44. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
45. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation,
and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
46. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General
Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude
of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People
of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies
are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved
from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection
between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved;
and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude
Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and
Things which Independent States may of right do.
47. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection
of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes
and our sacred Honor.