Declaration+of+Independence

= Declaration of Independence = = By: Lexi, Kelly, Kaho and Nikki =

**//__Thomas Jefferson __//** **By: Lexi **
 * Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 and was the third President of the United States. He went to college at College of William & Mary. He was a member of the FHC Society. Later in life he found the University of Virginia, mostly as a result of attempting to improvement the College of William & Mary. (This was only little success.) Thomas was the main author of the Declaration of Independence and a leader in American culture. Jefferson pushed the frontiers of America through the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Jefferson’s political career began as the first Secretary of State of the United States. A post he served within for six years, from 1789 until 1795. Afterwards, he spent 4 years as John Adams, (Vice President). As a result of getting second place in the 1976 presidential elections. Like many of the founding fathers, Jefferson was a Deist. He believed that although God was real, he was distant and unconcerned with humanity. That God simply created, and then went somewhere else to play. Jefferson did not believe in miracles to the point of writing his own accounting of the gospels, commonly known as the Jefferson Bible. He brought copies of his new bible to many of his most famous actions, quoting from them religiously and driving home his belief that man was man’s own savior. In conclusion Jefferson’s put for human liberty struck a chord that resounds even today. But in the end, Jefferson's own judgment of his life, and the one that he wrote for use on his own gravestone was enough. **

=** Vocabulary: **= =** Suffice: to be enough for somebody or something **= ** Unconcerned: ** ** not involved or interested; disinterested. ** ** Political: ** ** of, pertaining to, or concerned with politics: //political writers.// **
 * Humanity: the human race considered as a whole **
 * Frontiers: a border between two countries or the land immediately adjacent to this. **

** Primary source document: **

** Declaration of Independence ** ** We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are gifted by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments is institute among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Carefulness, really, will dictate that governments long recognized should not be changed for light and transient causes; and for that reason all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. **

** Fun Facts! **

** 1. **** The Declaration of Independence wasn't signed on July 4, 1776. That was the day the wording was ** ** approved by the delegates to the Continental Congress. **

** 2. John Adams wrote his wife, Abigail, that July 2, 1776 would be celebrated as Independence Day because that was the day the delegates to Congress voted in favor of independence. **

** 3. The sheet of parchment the Declaration is written on measures 24-1/4 inches by 29-3/4 inches. John Hancock's signature is nearly 5 inches long. **

** 4. Contrary to the movie, //National Treasure//, there is no map on the back of the Declaration. There is only a notation to label the document for filing. **

** 5. The Declaration is housed in a bullet-proof case and is heavily guarded. When the Archives are closed, the Declaration is moved to an underground vault. **

** 6. By the time the Declaration was written the United States had been at war with Great Britain for over a year. **

** 7. Thomas Jefferson took on the duty of drafting the Declaration, asking John Adams and Benjamin Franklin for corrections. His 'rough draft' is in the Library of Congress. **

** 8. The middle section of the Declaration is a list of grievances the colonies had against King George III or the British Parliament. The British people, on the other hand, were not held to be at fault. **

** 9. The so-called 'fair draft' of the Declaration was sent to the printer on July 4, 1776. It has been lost and was presumed to have been destroyed in the printing process. **

** 10. The first printing of the Declaration was on the night of July 4, 1776. It was delivered to Congress on July 5. Copies were immediately sent to all of the colonial governments and to Gen. Washington to be read to the troops. **

** 11. Only 26 copies of this first printing, called the Dunlap broadside for its printer, are known to exist. Most are in government or university libraries and museums. **

** 12. a copy of the Dunlap broadside was found in the British National Archives in Kew, England in 2009. **

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** Work Cited: ** ** 1: Thomas jefferson. (2001). Retrieved from **[|**http://www.citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid=2&mode=form&reqsrcid=APAInternetJournalArticle&more=yes&nameCnt=1**] 2. Abercrombie,, Redginald. (Jun 17, 2010). 20 fun facts about the declaration of independence. Retrieved from []  declaration.html =A Link! = = ** [] ** =

=__By: Kelly __= = __Who Signed the Declaration of Independence __ =  The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in America. The U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776 by 56 members of the Continental Congress. John Hancock got to sign first with his huge signature because he was the President of the Congress. It's commonly believed that John Hancock signed that way, referring to the King's bad vision, but there's no actual proof of that. The youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence (Edward Rutledge of South Carolina) was only 26-years-old and the oldest (Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania) was 70-years-old! Two signers even went on to become presidents of The United State, these signers were John Adams (the 2nd President from Massachusetts) and Thomas Jefferson (the 3rd President from Virginia). The signers of the Declaration of Independence were very intelligent people who were willing to fight for the freedom of their country, and went on to do great things.  __Vocabulary: __ Independence- freedom from [|the]  control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others. 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font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> **__<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">The 56 signatories of the Declaration of Independence were: __** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;">**__<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Connecticut __** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> Samuel Huntington <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> Roger Sherman <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> William Williams <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> Oliver Wolcott <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;">**__<span style="color: #7030a0; 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margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;">**__<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Virginia __** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> Carter Braxton <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> Benjamin Harrison <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> Thomas Jefferson <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> Richard Henry Lee <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> Francis Lightfoot Lee <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> Thomas Nelson, Jr. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> George Wythe <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="background: #e6e6ec; border-bottom: #9999cc 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #9999cc .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 5pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> ==<span style="background: #e6e6ec; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #9999cc .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: center;">__<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Instructions from Malden, Massachusetts, for **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">independence ** __ == <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">At a legal meeting **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** the inhabitants **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** the town **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** Malden, [Mass.] May 27, 1776, it was voted unanimously, that the following instructions be given to their representative, viz. ** code ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">To Mr. Ezra Sargeant. ** code ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">SIR - A resolution **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** the house **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** representatives, calling upon the several towns in this colony to express their minds with respect to the important question **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** American **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">independence **, is the occasion **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** our new instruction you. The time was, sir, when we loved the king and the people **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** Great Britain with an affection truly filial; we felt ourselves interested in their glory; we shared in their joys and sorrows; we cheerfully poured the fruit **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** all our labors into the lap **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** our mother-country, and without reluctance expended our blood and our treasure in their cause. ** ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">These were our sentiments towards Great Britain while she continued to act the part **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** a parent state; we felt ourselves happy in our connection with her, nor wished it to be dissolved; but our sentiments are altered, it is now the ardent wish **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** our souls that America may become a free and independent state. ** ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">A sense **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** unprovoked injuries will arouse the resentment **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** the most peaceful. Such injuries these colonies have received from Britain. Unjustifiable claims have been made by the king and his minions to tax us without our consent; these claims have been prosecuted in a manner cruel and unjust to the highest degree. The frantic policy **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** administration hath induced them to send fleets and armies to America; that, by depriving us **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** our trade and cutting the throats **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** our brethren, they might awe us into submission, and erect a system **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** despotism in America, which should so far enlarge the influence **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** the crown as to enable it to rivet their shackles upon the people **<span style="font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of ** Great Britain. ** ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">*It is changed into my own words!! ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> ** __<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">Work Citied __ ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">"Declaration of Independence." //Grolier Online// (2004): n. pag. Web. 4 Feb 2011. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">"people of the Declaration of Independence." //Worldbook Online// (2005): n. pag. Web. 4 Feb 2011. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">Link to another site: [] **

<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"> __<span style="color: #3503ba; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">FUN FACTS __ <span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">1. There Was No "United States" in the Declaration of Independence.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">2. Jefferson Was Upset that Slavery was Edited out.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">3. The Youngest and Oldest Signers

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">4. The Sole Recanter: Richard Stockton

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">5. Bargain Hunter Bought an Old Copy of the Declaration of Independence for $4, Sold It For Millions!

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">6. The Declaration of Independence wasn't signed on July 4, 1776. That was the day the wording was approved by the delegates to the Continental Congress.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">7. John Adams wrote his wife, Abigail, that July 2, 1776 would be celebrated as Independence Day because that was the day the delegates to Congress voted in favor of independence.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">8. The sheet of parchment the Declaration is written on measures 24-1/4 inches by 29-3/4 inches. John Hancock's signature is nearly 5 inches long.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">9. Contrary to the movie, National Treasure, there is no map on the back of the Declaration. There is only a notation to label the document for filing.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">10. The Declaration is housed in a bullet-proof case and is heavily guarded. When the Archives are closed, the Declaration is moved to an underground vault.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">11. By the time the Declaration was written the United States had been at war with Great Britain for over a year.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">12. Thomas Jefferson took on the duty of drafting the Declaration, asking John Adams and Benjamin Franklin for corrections. His 'rough draft' is in the Library of Congress.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">13. The middle section of the Declaration is a list of grievances the colonies had against King George III or the British Parliament. The British people, on the other hand, were not held to be at fault.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">14. The so-called 'fair draft' of the Declaration was sent to the printer on July 4, 1776. It has been lost and was presumed to have been destroyed in the printing process.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">15. The first printing of the Declaration was on the night of July 4, 1776. It was delivered to Congress on July 5. Copies were immediately sent to all of the colonial governments and to Gen. Washington to be read to the troops.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">16. Only 26 copies of this first printing, called the Dunlap broadside for its printer, are known to exist. Most are in government or university libraries and museums.

<span style="color: #8f33ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">17. A copy of the Dunlap broadside was found in the British National Archives in Kew, England in 2009. The find was revealed on July 4.

<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">By Nikki 1. __ Paragraphs __ __ Four Main Sections __ <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">There are four main things that the Declaration of Independence Declares. The first is that People should have the right to control their government. What this means is that if a government has too much power or is doing things that the people don’t like, the people should be able to kick them out. The second thing it declares is that King George is a tyrant. The reason this is relevant to them declaring freedom is because they don’t want their government to be like him they don’t want to have a government that is out of control. <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The next section states that the colonies tried to avoid separation. This means that they tried to not split off to be their own country they tried to work with their government, but they just couldn’t do it anymore. The final section says that the colonies are declaring freedom and independence. This section kind of speaks for itself because they are clearly declaring independence. These are the four sections of the Declaration of Independence.

2. __ Vocabulary __ <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Tyrant- ruler that has too much power <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Declaration of Independence- A document written by Thomas Jefferson declaring Independence <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">King George- the King of the British at the time of the revolutionary war <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Government- A group of people that make decisions for a group of people <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Second Continental Congress- They decided to write The D of I <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">3. Pictures <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; overflow: hidden;">

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5. __ Primary Source Document __ 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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. __ My Own Words __ <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">All men are created equal. They should all be treated buy the same rules and have certain rights. The Government should support these rules. When the government has too much power it should be the people’s duty to destroy it, and provide a new government. The King of great Brittan is a Tyrant and had a Tyranny over the states.

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<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This Document was written 1776 <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The colonies is what it helped fix <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">All men should be treated equal is what it said <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">King George to them was now died <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">What I mean was he would no longer who rule <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This was because the man was very cruel <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The colonies didn’t want to split up <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">But eventually Great Brittan just made them erupt <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Finally they were free and all was good <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Everything was perfect as it should <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">So this document did a lot <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">It definitely destroyed Britain’s evil plot

7. __ Work Cited __ <span style="background: white; color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24pt; margin: 0in 60pt 0.75pt 0.5in;">Rakove, Jack N. "Declaration of Independence." //World Book Student.// World Book, 2011. Web. 3 Feb. 2011. <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">-Nikki