Social Studies Grade 5

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5. Read this passage from the Declaration of Independence.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed … That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.

What action does this passage support? a. banning imports and exports b. creating a Continental Army c. electing new members of Parliament d. breaking from the British government

6. The Committee of Five was created to write the __________.

Treaty of Versailles; League of Friendship; Olive Branch Petition; Declaration of Independence

7. Why was the Iroquois Confederacy used as a model for the first American government?

Independence and Revolution: The Government | Week 23

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