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What is a purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Establish that the Colonies had the right to secede based upon the failures of the King

List the grievences or complaints of the colonists

Declare war on England

Form a new Monarchy in the United States

The Declaration of Independence reflects an application of Enlightenment ideas to the grievances of British subjects in the American colonies.

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Which were governing precedents set by the Northwest Ordinance?

Set up a system for funding of education

Determining how states could be added to the Union

Creating a reservation for Native Americans

No slavery North of the Ohio River

The Northwest Ordinance addressed a need for government in the Northwest Territory and established precedents for the future governing of the United States.

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Match the terms and descriptions

Established the philosophies of Natural Rights and Social Contract in the United States
Governed the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, MIchigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin
Eventually the ideas from this document influenced the Constitution in how to add states and later how to deal with Slavery
This document has no legal standing, but in many ways describes why the US was different from the European nations

Declaration of Independence
Northwest Ordinance

The Declaration of Independence reflects an application of Enlightenment ideas to the grievances of British subjects in the American colonies.

The Northwest Ordinance addressed a need for government in the Northwest Territory and established precedents for the future governing of the United States.

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
When Thomas Jefferson was quoting Enlightenment thinkers in this passage, how did he break with the view that the British may have had of the colonies?

Jefferson believed that the colonists should be happy to be part of the great British Empire, who protects the colonists

That the colonists should have the same rights at people in England and that those rights were not given by Parliament but by God

That slavery should be banned and those former slaves given immediate citizenship

That the rights of the colonists should be increased because they supported the British in the French and Indian War and provided many raw materials--they had earned it

The Declaration of Independence reflects an application of Enlightenment ideas to the grievances of British subjects in the American colonies.

Declaration and Northwest Ordinance

Declaration and Northwest Ordinance

What is a purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Which were governing precedents set by the Northwest Ordinance?

Match the terms and descriptions

What is a purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Which were governing precedents set by the Northwest Ordinance?

Match the terms and descriptions