Declaration of Independence

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Across
  1. 4. “… it is their right, it is their ______ to throw off such Government…”
  2. 6. “…deriving their just powers from the consent of the ____...”
  3. 8. According to John Locke, natural rights included life, ________, and property
  4. 10. Acts that closed the port of Boston
  5. 12. Can’t be taken away. Used to describe people’s natural rights
  6. 15. One of the first battles of the Revolutionary War
  7. 16. People receive their natural rights from, “their _____”
  8. 17. Act that forced colonists to provide British troops with housing and supplies
  9. 19. Formal Complaints against the British government
  10. 21. Principal writer of the Declaration of Independence
  11. 22. Act that imposed new taxes on the colonists
Down
  1. 1. To give permission or allow something to happen
  2. 2. Where does the government get its power?
  3. 3. Introduction to the Declaration of Independence
  4. 5. Cruel or oppressive government or rule
  5. 7. Obvious, does not need to be explained
  6. 9. “…all men are created _____....”
  7. 11. Part of the British government that created laws
  8. 13. Philosopher who believed that natural rights came from God
  9. 14. Natural right according to the Declaration of Independence
  10. 18. King of England in 1776
  11. 20. “…it is the Right of the _____ to alter or abolish it [the government]…”