Declaration of Independence

Q. Britain recognised the independence of the United States of America through the Treaty of Paris in ________.

1. 1789
2. 1793
3. 1777
4. 1783

Q. Arrange these events in chronological order:
i. Thomas Paine's publication of 'Common Sense'
ii. Declaration of Independence
iii. Second Continental Congress
iv. Battle of Bunker

1. i- iv - ii - iii
2. i - ii -iv - iii
3. iii - iv - ii - i
4. iii - iv - i - ii

Q. Which of the following treaties ended the American War of Independence?

1. Treaty of Continental Congress
2. Treaty of Washington
3. Treaty of Paris
4. Treaty of Versailles

Q. The Supreme Court decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford stated all the following EXCEPT:

1. A slave could not gain his or her freedom by moving to a free state or territory.
2. Slaves had the legal status of property, not people.
3. The Founding Fathers had never intended for Africans to become U.S. citizens.
4. The Missouri Compromise violated the Fifth Amendment.
5. Only individual states could decide whether a slave could become a citizen.

Q. The American Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence drafted by:

1. George Washington and James Madison
2. John Locke and Thomas Paine
3. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
4. John Adams and Samuel Adams

Q. Who led the freedom struggle of America?

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Thomas Jafferson
3. John Locke
4. George Washington

Q. Despite the belligerent slogan "54'40 or Fight!" Polk chose to negotiate in 1846 for the Oregon Territory boundaries because:

1. He was bound by the previous treaties signed with England.
2. He could not get Southern support for a war.
3. It was both unrealistic and potentially disastrous to get into simultaneous wars with both England and Mexico.
4. Beginning a war might get Russia. Spain. and Mexico to ally against the US.
5. Most settlers in the northern portion of the Oregon Territory considered themselves Russians or English. not Americans.

Q. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

Identify the document or book in which the above phrase was written.

1. The Social Contract
2. Declaration of Independence
3. Communist Manifesto
4. Continental Congress Manifesto

Q. The American War of Independence ended with the Treaty of .

1. Munich
2. New York
3. Boston
4. Paris