Quiz on Lesson 10

   1. In 1776 Thomas Paine published a book called .

   2. In his book Thomas Paine said that all were bad.

   3. The book Common Sense made many Americans believe .

   4. People in America who stayed loyal to the King of England were called .

   5. of all Americans were loyal to the King of England.

   6. The Second Continental Congress signed a document called the .

   7. If the colonists lost the war the men in the Second Continental Congress would be .

   8. The Declaration of Independence was written to tell the world:

Why more British soldiers should be sent to America.
How good the King of England was to the American colonies.
Why America believed it should be a free and independent nation.
What George Washington thought about the American soldiers.

   9. The Declaration of Independence says that when a ruler no longer has permission of the people to rule, the people have the right:

to kill the king.
to start a war.
to write declarations.
to form a new government to rule them.

   10. The Declaration of Independence says that all men are .
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   11. Did all the delegates at the Congress want to be free from England?

   12. The Declaration of Independence was written by one man named .
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   13. The Declaration of Independence was approved by the Second Continental Congress on , 1776.
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   14. Name one member on the committee to write the declaration.
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