REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
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Question
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The Declaration of Independence is a ____
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Secondary Source
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Primary Source
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Declaration of Independence: Primary Documents in American History. The Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Declaration was authored by a “Committee of Five”-John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman-with Jefferson as the main drafter.
Detailed explanation-3: -The introductory sentence states the Declaration’s main purpose, to explain the colonists’ right to revolution. In other words, “to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Congress had to prove the legitimacy of its cause. It had just defied the most powerful nation on Earth.
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