Declaration of Independence -- Music Video
Declaration of Independence PPT
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List of Grievances -- using the translations given below, place them onto the List of Grievances worksheet (given out in class 1/12) and then rank them according to the directions on the page.
"He has manipulated people and groups within our colony to fight each other, and has turned the Natives and their violence on us."
"He won't allow us to create our own laws, a basic thing we need for things to work here."
"He has over-fished our waters, burned down our towns, and destroyed the lives of many people within our colonies."
"He has given up his role as king by refusing to protect us and even going to war with us."
" He's sent the Army to watch over us, when we didn't need or want them even though there is no war."
" He's sending over a large army of soldiers he bought with no morals to do the job of killing and torturing us."
"He has manipulated people and groups within our colony to fight each other, and has turned the Natives and their violence on us."
"He won't allow us to create our own laws, a basic thing we need for things to work here."
"He has over-fished our waters, burned down our towns, and destroyed the lives of many people within our colonies."
"He has given up his role as king by refusing to protect us and even going to war with us."
" He's sent the Army to watch over us, when we didn't need or want them even though there is no war."
" He's sending over a large army of soldiers he bought with no morals to do the job of killing and torturing us."
Are the Ideas of the Declaration of Independence still valid today?
How to write a document that would speak of the American spirit? This was the quest of Thomas Jefferson as he sat down to write the Declaration of Independence. Three hot weeks in Philadelphia later he believed he accomplished that goal. The Declaration is considered to be a statement of the spirit of the revolution and of the the American people as a whole. A new nation was born of a new people. We were no longer Englishmen, we were Americans.
The Declaration is divided into three basic segments:
1. An introduction with a statement of our philosophy.
How to write a document that would speak of the American spirit? This was the quest of Thomas Jefferson as he sat down to write the Declaration of Independence. Three hot weeks in Philadelphia later he believed he accomplished that goal. The Declaration is considered to be a statement of the spirit of the revolution and of the the American people as a whole. A new nation was born of a new people. We were no longer Englishmen, we were Americans.
The Declaration is divided into three basic segments:
1. An introduction with a statement of our philosophy.
- Jefferson used the writings of John Locke as a basis of the philosophy behind the revolution. First Jefferson announces that it is neccesary to write a document when "it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to another." He then declares that there are certain "truths." "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." Accordingly he continues to paraphrase Locke by discussing the concept of the social contract and the ensuing right to rebel. "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving there just powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever and Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it." Thus Jefferson has laid a philosophical framework as the revolution as a "just."
- In the second section Jefferson lists 27 grievances against the King to prove his supposition that the King has lost his right to rule by consent. Among these grievances he lists:
- He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our People.
- He has erected a Multitude of New Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
- He has made Judges dependent on his will alone, for the Tenure of their offices and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.
- He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our Legislatures.
- For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World.
- For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us.
- For imposing Taxes on us without our consent.
- For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury.