Chapter 6 Section 4 Declaring Independence Pages 177-181
Read One American’s Story and answer the following questions.
1. Why would Margaret Kemble Gage have mixed feelings about the American Revolution?
2. What do the following quotes mean?
· “I am with both, each army hath a hand” mean?
· “Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose”
· “Assured loss, before the match be played”
3. Why did her husband send her back to England?
Read The Siege of Boston and answer the following questions.
1. What would be the best way to force the British in Boston to surrender?
2. Where would they get the cannon to carry out this plan?
3. When the Second Continental Congress met, what two decisions did they make?
4. What were the British and Colonial losses at Bunker Hill?
· What did this battle prove?
Read The Conflict Spreads and answer the following questions.
1. What were some of the discussions people were having about the conflict?
2. Write a definition for Olive Branch Petition.
3. Why did Washington want to invade Quebec in Eastern Canada?
4. Why did the British have to retreat from Boston?
Read Rebellion Becomes Revolution and answer the following questions.
1. Who wrote Common Sense and when he wrote it, what were some of the ideas he wrote about?
· Make the argument that Common Sense was a success.
2. The Continental Congress still remained undecided about what issue? Cite an example to back up or prove your answer.
3. What were two reasons why Thomas Jefferson was selected to write the Declaration of Independence?
4. What was the Declaration based upon?
Read the primary source on page 183 and explain the following quotes.
“We hold these truths to be self evident”
“All men are created equal”
“They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights”
5. What was another of John Locke’s ideas used in the Declaration?
Read the Declaration of Independence on Pages 184-185 and answer the following questions.
1. Read the Preamble. What is Jefferson saying when he writes “That they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation?”
2. Read The Right of the People to Control Their Government. What is Jefferson saying when he writes “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
3. Read Tyrannical Acts of the British King and tell me what is this a list of?
4. Read Efforts of the Colonies to Avoid Separation. What is Jefferson saying when he says “We have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury”
5. Read The Colonies Are Declared Free and Independent. What two declarations is Jefferson making?
A. B.
· He says the newly freed and independent states have what powers?