 Show https://apus.sophia.org/spcc/us-history-i-2/milestone_take_feedbacks/13142344 MILESTONE Score 22/25 22/25 that's 88% 22 questions were answered correctly. 3 questions were answered incorrectly. Score Improvement Tips 1. Remember that the Milestone is an open book test – use your notes and unit tutorials to help you evaluate the questions and choose possible answers. 2. When you think you have the right answer, read the question again to be sure. 3. Use as much of the time limit as you need – don’t rush through the Milestone. 4. Use the Practice Milestone as your key preparation tool. 5. Take the Milestone at a time and in a place where you can be focused and undisturbed for the entire Milestone time limit. OK 1 Which of the following describes slavery in the Southern colonies in the 18th century? Slaves were sailors, dockworkers and domestic workers. Slaves could own property and pass it on to their children. Strict race-based laws were passed to control perceived threats. Slavery was less prevalent because of the absence of cash crops. CONCEPT Think About It: What Was the Importance of Slavery to the Colonies? A painting portrays the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, adopted a document proclaiming that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, no longer regarded themselves as part of the British Empire and had formed a new nation — the United States of America. The term “Declaration of Independence” does not appear in the founding document, although that was clearly its intent. The declaration justified the independence of the United States by listing the colonists’ grievances against King George III, and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including the right to revolt against what the insurgents regarded as an oppressive monarch who sought to rule over them from across the Atlantic Ocean. On June 11, 1776, the Congress had named a five-member committee to draft a declaration. Its members were John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut. The committee, after outlining the document, called on Jefferson to write the first draft. After Jefferson did so, he consulted with the other members, made some changes, and produced a revised version that incorporated alterations. The drafting committee presented this copy to the Congress on June 28. Congress spent the next two days methodically editing the document, shortening it by a fourth, removing what the delegates identified as unnecessary wording and generally improving sentence structure. Congress particularly deleted Jefferson’s assertion that Britain had forced slavery on the colonies. On July 2, Congress provisionally adopted the resolution with 12 “yes” votes. New York abstained because its delegates had not yet received authority to approve it. In a letter to his wife, Abigail, Adams predicted that July 2 would become a great American holiday. He failed to foresee that Americans — including himself — would celebrate Independence Day on the date Congress formally adopted the declaration. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln revived wider interest in the document, which has continued to this day. Lincoln framed the document as the centerpiece of his policies and his rhetoric, including, memorably, in his Gettysburg Address of 1863. Since then, it has become a near universal statement on human rights, particularly its second sentence: “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.” In 1971, with the advent of newly developed digital technology, Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart chose the Declaration to be the first text ever to be digitized into a computer. A memorial to the 56 original signers of the Declaration of Independence was dedicated in 1984 in Constitution Gardens on the National Mall in Washington. The signatures of all the original signers are carved in stone with their names, places of residence and occupations. SOURCE: WWW.ARCHIVES.GOV/EXHIBITS/CHARTERS/DECLARATION_HISTORY.HTML What grievances was the centerpiece of the Declaration of Independence?But in fact, the main purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to present a compelling case that King George III and the British Parliament had broken their own laws, leaving the American colonists no choice but to cut ties and “throw off” British rule.
What are the top 3 grievances in the Declaration of Independence?The colonists' reasons for declaring independence and their specific complaints against the English government can be summarized into three main themes: Individual rights, representation and taxation.
What are the 5 grievances of the Declaration of Independence?Top 5 Grievances of the Declaration of Independence. Complaint #4 quartering the troops.. Complaint #2 standing armies.. Sources.. Complaint #3 abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.. Complaint #5 trial by jury.. Complaint #1 Imposing taxes without their permission:. What were the grievances in the Declaration of Independence quizlet?1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
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Which of the following grievances was the centerpiece of the declaration of independence?
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