Chapter 12: The Declaration of Independence

NEW WORDS

Match the definition to the New Word Vocabulary:

a. Second Continental Congress

b. Common Sense

c. Declaration of Independence

1. __________ document in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain.

2. _________ group of delegates (representatives) that acted as the government for the American colonies.

3. _________ influential booklet that encouraged colonists to declare independence from Britain.

True or False:

4. ___________ Thomas Paine was the author of the influential booklet Common Sense

5. ___________ Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence

6. ___________ The 2nd Continental Congress approved and signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776

7. ___________ The Declaration of Independence was written in language that a fifth grade today could easily understand.

Define the following words:

1) Second Continental Congress 4) treason

2) Declaration of Independence 5) King of England (who was it?)

3) Common Sense