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Note from the author:
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The Declaration of Independence reflects an application of Enlightenment ideas to the grievances of British subjects in the American colonies.
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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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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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The Declaration of Independence reflects an application of Enlightenment ideas to the grievances of British subjects in the American colonies.
Declaration of Independence and Northwest Ordinance
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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
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
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
"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