Dec of Ind Classwork Teams
1. Altimirano, Srod, Dube, Tfuller, Hayward,
Max
2. Hfuller, Carlson, Hill, Serra, Kane,
LaCanna
3. Gage, Young, Kohl, Kielblock, Markman,
Rizzon
4. Kumor, Villa, Franco, Jara, Tarka
Dec of Ind Classwork Teams
1. Wardell, Waiman, Thomas, Zahveae
2. Almeida, Clarke, Chan, Eva, Charlie
3. Madeline, Miles, Lopes, Kory, Destiny
4. Aaron, Spaulding, Maibelle, Logyn
• Title = Dec of Ind
• Which section of
the Declaration
of Independence
made the most
important
immediate and
long-term impact
in American
history? Justify
your answer.
• Analyze the
influences on the
Declaration of
Independence
• Analyze the
decisions made at
the 2nd Continental
Congress
• Judge the
Declaration of
Independence
based on various
viewpoints
1. What am I? Keep
the answer
simple…
_____ of _____
1. Introduction
2. Preamble!!!!!
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.
This is
one of the
USA’s
most
important
ideals, but
did we
follow it?
Did I?
1. Introduction
2. Preamble!!!!!
3. Indictment…
– What does this
section look like? (2)
– Which grievances
look familiar? #’s
– Why have this
section?
4. CYA moment
5. Formal
Declaration
6. Signatures…
What did
we think
of it?
Who supported
the Declaration of
Independence?
Who had
issues with the
document?
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its
men of a distant
most sacred rights of life and liberty in theAll
persons
are& carrying them into
people who never offended him, captivating
slavery in another hemisphere or to incurcreated
miserable death in their
transportation thither. This piratical warfare,
the opprobrium of
equal.
infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great
Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be
bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing
every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable
commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no
fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to
rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he
has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has
obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again
the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to
commit against the lives of another.
• Dec of Ind printed throughout the
colonies & the world
• Americans happiness will be short-lived
after Sept 1776 (Battle of NYC)
becomes 42K
bullets 
• A cute (and
refreshingly unique)
marriage…
• Wrote hundreds of
letters to each other
during their marriage
• Important exchange
happens while John
Adams is in the 2nd
Continental
Congress
• Who makes the
better argument?
• Central Gov strength…
– Weak Confederation
Congress (Parliament)
– Weak President (King)
• More Power where?
– States…what will they
have the power to do?
• Who runs the war?
– Conf Congress or States?
• USA’s 1st Draft
– Flawed
– A natural reaction to what
existed before
– Will be revised!!