grade+5+social+studies

=1. How did the Colonies organize a government to lead their fight for independence ?=

=Leaders from 12 colonies gathered in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, for the second=

=Continental Congress. They voted to organize the New England militia into an army=

=of 22,000 for defense for U.S.A liberty .They named George Washington, a Virginian=

=to lead the forces .=

=2. In what ways did King George rule the colonists harshly and unfairly before the=

=the start of the Revolutionary war ?=

=King George ruled the colonists harshly and unfairly by taxing them for teas ,=

=molasses, newspapers and stamps. The colonists did not like this and protested against this .=

=King George punished them by closing down Bostin Harbor causing an economical desaster .=

=3. In the declaration, Jefferson wrote that each citizen has natural rights. What are these natural rights=

=? and what should government do about it ?=

=These natural rights are that colonists should not be under the control over the British, the British should n=

=colonists over every little good that comes from England. The government should give the Colonists there=

=freedom of taxes and independence .=

=4. Compare what Thomas Jefferson meant by equality and and what this word meas to Americans today .= =Give some examples of equality as it applies to students at school .=