Read the Declaration of Independence and answer the following questions

Read the Declaration of Independence and answer the following questions:

1) Why was the document written for a public presentation or why is the document itself important?

2) What “rights” are “unalienable”

3) What is used “to secure these rights”?

4) Where do the “powers of government come from?

5) Why is it “their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government”; in other words what has the government done to warrant being thrown off?

6) What did the King of Great Britain do to the colonies? (generally)

7) Now, list 10 things that the King did the colonies found offensive (these are SPECIFIC things and there are at least 29 of them but just list your top 10.)

8) What did the colonies do to bring these items to the attention of the British government?

9) Near the end when the appeal “to the Supreme Judge of the world” and state “a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence” to whom are they referring?

10) Do you think that the colonists made their case and supported their independence? Wh