USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

[SOURCES]
Which quotation from the text best demonstrates Jefferson’s main purpose for writing the Declaration of Independence?

(A) “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”

(B) “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms ____ “

(C) “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ____ “

(D) ** “We ____ declare, That these United Colonies are ____ Free and Independent States ____ Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown ____ “

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Jefferson based the Declaration on the theory of natural rights, which argued that every human being has certain basic rights that belong to the person by virtue of his or her being human.

Concept note-2: -Jefferson aimed to unite the colonists in writing the Declaration of Independence.