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Study Guide-Path to Independence
Directions: Turn in this completed study guide
with your parent/guardian signature before the test is handed out
to boost your test grade to the next letter grade (A's increase 5
points) Credit will not be give for unsigned, incomplete, or
inadequately answered study guides. Your test may include, but is
not limited to the following items.
Vocabulary:
- heritage
- legislature
- charter
- tyranny
- direct democracy
- republic
- natural rights
- separation of powers
- compact
- constitution
- ratification
Completely answer the following on separate
paper:
- List and describe the two British documents discussed in
class which granted limited rights to groups.
- Why did Parliament leave the early American colonists
alone?
- Why did Parliament later take a strong interest in the
colonies?
- Why did northern colonies support the idea of
Independence initially, and why did Southern colonies
oppose it?
- What rights are asserted in the declaration of
Independence?
- What reasons did Jefferson give in the Declaration of
Independence for the e3xistance of government?
- What justification did Jefferson give in the Declaration
of Independence for breaking away from the British
government?
- What actions did American colonists take to correct their
grievances with the British government and the British
people, according to the Declaration of Independence?
- What was the response to those actions by the British
government and the British people?
- What 4 powers do the United States have, according to the
Declaration of Independence?
Probable Essay Question: (You must
answer to get credit on the study guide)
Given what you have learned about the disagreements
between the American colonists and the British government, and
your study of the Declaration of Independence and why it was
written, do you think the signers of the Declaration committed an
act of patriotism or an act of treason? Back up your opinion with
at least four facts we have studied. Essays will be graded on the
strength of your argument, not your opinion.
Your test will be:
(2nd and 5th
period-Wed. Dec. 15)
(1st and 7th period-Thursday, Dec. 16)
