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    The document is a worksheet for analyzing the Declaration of Independence. It contains questions about key aspects of the Declaration, including: who the main author was, which country the colonies ended their allegiance to, the unalienable rights listed, the grievances against King George III in terms of economic hurts, military hurts, and taking away rights and governments, and how the statement about all men being created equal with unalienable rights has shaped American identity and culture.

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    The document is a worksheet for analyzing the Declaration of Independence. It contains questions about key aspects of the Declaration, including: who the main author was, which country the colonies ended their allegiance to, the unalienable rights listed, the grievances against King George III in terms of economic hurts, military hurts, and taking away rights and governments, and how the statement about all men being created equal with unalienable rights has shaped American identity and culture.

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    Drd Teodora Driscu

    English Department, UAIC


    E-mail: teodora.driscu@yahoo.com

    American Literature Seminar


    Week 2: The Declaration of Independence
    Worksheet

    A. REVIEW

    1. The Declaration of Independence ended the colonies’ allegiance to what country?


    ________ ___________
    2. Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence? _____________
    ________________
    3. What legislative body/congress approved the Declaration? The ___________ ___________
    ____________

    B. THE PREAMBLE [Paragraph 1)

    4. A preamble is another word for a(n) _____________________ to an important document.


    5. What does the word “dissolve” mean in this context? ___________________________-
    6. Who are the “powers of the Earth” the Preamble is referring to and what are the united
    States seeking among them?
    __________________________________________________________________________

    C. THE DECLARATION OF NATURAL RIGHTS

    7. Unalienable means to not able to be transferred or taken away; because of being protected
    by law. What are the three unalienable rights?
    _____________________________________________________

    8. In paragraph 2, the authors wrote that (a) “governments are instituted among _________,
    deriving (or getting) their power from the consent of the governed.”
    (b) Who are “the governed?” ____________________________________________
    (c) What is meant by “’consent’ of the governed?” ___________________________
    ______________________________________________

    9. When government becomes destructive, what do the people have the right to do? “It is the
    right of the People to…” (a) ______________ or to (b)_____________, and to institute
    (c)_________________________

    10. The Declaration states that it’s not smart to change long-established government (ones in
    place for many years) for just any reason. When is it (according to the D of I) okay to do this?
    “But when a long train of ___________________ and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
    same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their
    _____________, it is their _____________, to throw off such government, and provide new
    guards for their future _______________.”
    Drd Teodora Driscu
    English Department, UAIC
    E-mail: teodora.driscu@yahoo.com

    D. THE LIST OF GRIEVANCES

    11. Name two ways (according to the Declaration) the King has hurt the colonies
    economically. _____________________________________
    ______________________________________ 12. Name two ways (according to the
    Declaration) the King has hurt the colonies militarily.
    _____________________________________ ______________________________________
    13. Name two ways (according to the Declaration) the King has hurt the colonies by taking
    away rights, and/or governments (courts, assemblies, etc.).
    _____________________________________ ______________________________________

    14. What do the writers of the Declaration say has been the King’s response to us?
    (a) “Our Repeated ________________ have been answered only be repeated
    _________________.” (b) What does this statement mean?
    ________________________________________________

    15. Even though the colonists continually warned and appealed to the British, the Declaration
    says that the British continue to be “deaf to the ________________ ____ ________________
    and consanguinity.”

    E. MEANING

    16. Comment on the following statement:

    “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”.

    What do you think the authors meant? How do you think these unalienable rights have shaped
    the American identity/culture/literature?

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