Name: ______________________
Declaration of Independence Webquest:
Welcome to the ushistory.org Declaration of Independence site Webquest. Follow
all of the directions listed for each of the tasks presented.
Declaration of Independence
*To Begin Type in this address-http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/index.htm
I. Click on the (Click for picture link at the top left):
1. Where is the original Declaration of Independence located? (Look above
the Picture)
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2. What is on the back of the Declaration of Independence document? (Scroll
to the bottom of the picture and look below it)
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II. Click on the (Signers link located to the left in the Navigation Bar):
1. How many total people signed the Declaration of Independence? (Look at
the first sentence in the first paragraph)
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2. List the 13 states that had Declaration of Independence signers.
(In Red Print)
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h. ___________________________
b. _________________________
i. ___________________________
c. _________________________
j. ___________________________
d. _________________________
k. ___________________________
e. _________________________
l. ___________________________
f. _________________________ m. ___________________________
g. _________________________
3. Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence? (Click
on the Thomas Jefferson Link and look at the last paragraph)
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III. Click on Jefferson’s Account Link in the Navigation Bar to the left:
1. Why were the Committee’s of Correspondence formed? (In the second
Blue Box, second paragraph)
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2. What are the Circular Letters? (In the second Blue Box, third
paragraph)
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IV. Click on the Declaration Timeline Link in the Navigation Bar to the
left:
1. On what date did Congress adopt the Declaration of Independence?
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2. What two states had the most signers of the Declaration of
Independence?
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3. What state had the least amount of signers of the Declaration of
Independence?
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