Declaration of Independence

4. “… it is their right, it is their ______ to throw off such Government…”
6. “…deriving their just powers from the consent of the ____...”
8. According to John Locke, natural rights included life, ________, and property
10. Acts that closed the port of Boston
12. Can’t be taken away. Used to describe people’s natural rights
15. One of the first battles of the Revolutionary War
16. People receive their natural rights from, “their _____”
17. Act that forced colonists to provide British troops with housing and supplies
19. Formal Complaints against the British government
21. Principal writer of the Declaration of Independence
22. Act that imposed new taxes on the colonists

1. To give permission or allow something to happen
2. Where does the government get its power?
3. Introduction to the Declaration of Independence
5. Cruel or oppressive government or rule
7. Obvious, does not need to be explained
9. “…all men are created _____....”
11. Part of the British government that created laws
13. Philosopher who believed that natural rights came from God
14. Natural right according to the Declaration of Independence
18. King of England in 1776
20. “…it is the Right of the _____ to alter or abolish it [the government]…”