USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

[SOURCES]
What is “government of the people, by the people, for the people” an allusion to?

(A) The constitution

(B) The First Amendment

(C) ** The Declaration of Independence

(D) Great Britain

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Declaration of Independence is a document that officially records the proclamation that the United States is an independent country from Great Britain.

Concept note-2: -The Preamble describes the new philosophy of government that Jefferson and the other Founders proposed. It also justifies the “necessity” of a revolution. In this section of the document, the ideas in John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government are described in a short, simple statement.

Concept note-3: -The Virginia Declaration of Rights strongly influenced Thomas Jefferson in writing the first part of the Declaration of Independence. It later provided the foundation for the Bill of Rights.