Focus 10/9

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Focus 10/9
What is this political cartoon saying? How do you
know? Use the following evidence to support your
answer. Exaggeration Symbols Captions
People Current Events
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Focus 10/10

• You have 5 mins to review your notes for the
  quiz.
• Study pages 24, 26, and 30 in your ISNs

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ID 10/9/2012

• Thomas Paine titled his work Common Sense because
• Additionally, the purpose of the writing The
  Crisis was to

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Left side activity page 31

• Write a about a break up you heard about,
  witnessed, or experienced in your life. Why did
  the break up occur? Who was the one to break up
  with that person?
• What caused the break up? (complaints)
• How did this effect the people involved?
• What happened afterwards?

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Declaration of Independence

• July 4, 1776
• 2nd Continental Congress
• Author- Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams, Ben Franklin, John Hancock among the
  many who signed

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Preamble- introduction
When in the course of human events, it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which
the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation.
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Part 1
Natural Rights- rights belonging to people from
birth Unalienable rights- rights that cannot be
taken away.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.People form a government in order to
protect these natural rights
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Part 2

• Grievances (complaints)
• List of wrongs that led Americans to break away.
• Petitions fall on deaf ears

In every state of these oppressions, we have
petitioned for redress in the most humble terms
our repeated petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury.
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Part 3

1. Independence
2. Political ties cut with England
3. United States had the full power to
4. Make war, peace, alliance, commerce