Declaration of independence questions PLEASE HELP ASAP WILL GET IF ANSWERED ALL!! 1. What do you think the course of human events means?
2. What is the purpose of the Preamble?
3. Jefferson mentions “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind” what is he saying?

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QUESTIONS 4-9 COME FROM THE DECLARATION OF NATURAL RIGHTS
4. The phrases “endowed by their creator” means what?
5. What are the unalienable rights listed by Jefferson?
6. Where do governments get their power?
7. When a government becomes destructive to these ends, doesn’t work, what should then happen?
8. The term usurpations means
9. History has shown that people are likely to for a long time rather than to change the government that they have become used to.

QUESTIONS 10- 20 COME FROM THE LIST OF GRIEVANCES
10. What term does Jefferson use to describe the king’s power?
11. Who is “He”?
12. What right is considered to be priceless to colonist that the king wants to take away?
13. What has the king done in regards to immigration?
14. If a British troop killed a colonist, how would the king protect him?
15. The king imposed, or placed upon, the colonists without their consent.
16. In many cases colonists were denied .
17. For suspending our own legislature and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. Is called the Act. (last test)
18. How does Jefferson describe the Native Americans and the way the wage war?
19. What term is used to ask the king to stop and correct the things that he is doing wrong to the colonies?
20. When the king doesn’t listen and parliament doesn’t listen who have tehe colonists turned to for help? (that they don’t get)

QUESTIONS 21-25 COME FROM THE RESOLUTION OF INDEPENDENCE
21. Who do the colonists appeal to for the rightness of what they are doing?
22. What term means loyalty?
23. As a new country the colonies now have the right to do?
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24. Which colony had the most signers of the Declaration?
25. Most signers signed the document on .