Objective 1.4:
Vocabulary:
NAME: _________________________________
DATE: _________________________________
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SCAVENGER HUNT
Directions: Using your copy of the Declaration of Independence, find the answers to following questions.
1. What was the date the Declaration of
Independence was signed?
2. What single word at the beginning of the
Declaration shows that all 13 colonies agreed
with the Declaration?
3. What did the Declaration of Independence
say was “necessary”?
4. What truths were “self-evident”?
5. Where do governments get their power?
6. What rights do people have when the
government becomes destructive?
7. What words describe how governments
should be organized?
8. Under what conditions should a government
be changed? Should people change the
government whenever they want? Explain.
9. Who was the “despot” that the colonies
complained about?
10. What words show that the colonies have
put up with the wrongdoings of England?
11. What did the King do about the laws?
12. What did the King do about taxes that the
colonists thought were wrong?
13. What did the King’s officers do to the
colonists that was unfair?
14. What did the King do with his army soldiers
that was wrong?
15. What did the colonists do before the
Declaration of Independence to try to get the
King to stop his actions?
16. What words tell you that the King did not
listen to the complaints of the colonists before
the Declaration of Independence?
17. What powers will the free and
independent states now have as they break
ties with England?
18. What final lines of the Declaration of
Independence illustrate the magnitude and
unity of the signers?