The Revolution Begins

Question 1

How were the Iroquois Constitution and the Mayflower Compact similar to each other?

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They were both intended to create a government for the common good.

Question 2

The committee in charge of drafting the Declaration is formed.

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first

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson writes the Original Rough Draft.

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second

Question 4

Which of these are reasons the colonists were angry with Britain?

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taxes, such as the Stamp Act; the Intolerable Acts, which punished Massachusetts; housing British soldiers in private homes

Question 5

What did the delegates do at the First Continental Congress?Check all of the boxes that apply.

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sent the king a request for relief; called for a boycott of British goods; set a time for a follow-up meeting

Question 6

Which of these statements match the purposes of the Declaration of Independence?Check all of the boxes that apply.

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declaring that the colonies were now independent from Britain; explaining why the colonists had problems with British rule in the colonies; creating new principles for a new kind of government

Question 7

Place the following events in the correct order in which they took place.The Continental Congress votes in favor of independence.

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third

Question 8

government for the common good

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Mayflower Compact

Question 9

According to Enlightenment ideas, the goals of reason were to attain which of the following?Check all of the boxes that apply.

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knowledge; freedom; happiness

Question 10

the right to free elections

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English Bill of Rights

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