DECLARATION OF IND.
7TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES
MR. HIGBY
NAME: ________________________________________
Directions: Answer the following questions using the Declaration of
Independence. If you are absent you will still need to answer these questions.
1. When did the 2nd Continental Congress meet?
2. Where did the 2nd Continental Congress meet?
3. Why did the 2nd Continental Congress meet?
4. Who was selected to create the Declaration of Independence?
5. What was meant by unalienable rights?
6. What happens if a government becomes unjust?
7. What does Prudence mean?
8. What does usurpations mean?
9. What does Despotism mean?
10.What were the Americans trying to prove when they wrote “To Prove …”
on page 51?
11. What is Salutary Neglect (look it up)?
12. “He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly” what is meant by
this?
13. What is meant by Assent?
14. Why did standing armies upset the American people?
15. What was the quartering act?
16. Why did the British cut off trade in Boston Harbor?
17. Why did taxation upset the Americans?
18. Why did lack of trial by jury upset the American people?
19. Why did the policy of Impressment anger the American people?