Question about the Declaration of Independece...HELP!?

Question

1.Which grievance describes the Proclamation of 1763?
2.Which sentence can be seen as an allusion to the Courts of Admiralty that prevented the colonists from prosecuting British soldiers for crimes committed in the Colonies?
3.Which phrase relates to the Navigation Acts that were enforced after 1763?
4.Which phrase refers to the Stamp and Townshend Acts?
5.Which phrase can be seen as a reference to the Declaratory Act of 1766, which claimed Parliament had the supreme power of colonial rule?
6.Locate the paragraph that refers to the use of Hessian mercenaries by the British Crown.
7.Which sentence captures the essence of the Quartering Act of 1764?
8.Locate the paragraph that outlines the efforts of the First and Second Continental Congresses to obtain reconciliation with the King.
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Even a site that has these answers would help! Believe me, I've searched.. a ton.
& I just can't seem to find the answer...
some help would be very much appreciated!!

Answer 1

The links listed so far probably won't help you much with these specific questions. I'm trying to recall if I've seen a good web site for this.

But, if you can lay your hands on it, I DO know a book about the Declaration that devotes a significant section specifically to this "grievance" section and what each one was base on -- should be exactly what you need. See:

*American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence* by Pauline Maier (Knopf, 1997) -- see chapter 3, section 2 for a discussion of the "charges" (grievances)

You actually can view many if not all of these pages online. Just look up the book at Amazon.com, hit the "Search Inside" link. Use the search box to search in the book for "charges". It will give you a list of pages with a bit of text and links. Check out those from about p.105 to p.123.


Also note that, though Jefferson added some distinctive wording, little of the CONTENT of the Declaration is original with him -- he drew heavily on other state declarations and earlier British documents and forms (such as the English Bill of Rights of 1689). Thus these other documents will sometimes give clues to what Jefferson had in mind. (Maier discusses these in chapter 2)

Answer 2

The Balfour Declaration: Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917 Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet. “His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. Yours sincerely, Arthur James Balfour Thus, declared and promised Arthur James Balfour the then British Foreign Secretary, in a letter to Lord Rothschild, president of the British Zionist Federation, in a clear historic combined plot between the British government and the Zionist movement at that time, the Declaration was accepted by the League of Nations on July 24, 1922 and embodied in the mandate that gave Great Britain temporary administrative control of Palestine. It goes without saying that the British pledge which formally committed the British to the Zionist cause, was this Balfour Declaration of the second of November 1917, an instrument created after the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence and the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and long before the emergence of David Lloyd George as prime minister and Arthur James Balfour as foreign secretary in December 1916; the Liberal Herbert Asquith government had viewed a Jewish entity in Palestine as detrimental to British strategic aims in the Middle East. Lloyd George and his Tory supporters, however, saw British control over Palestine as much more attractive than the proposed British-French condominium. Since the time of the Sykes-Picot agreement, Palestine had taken on increased strategic importance because of its proximity to the Suez Canal, where the British garrison had increased to 300,000 men, and because of a planned British attack on Ottoman Syria originating from Egypt. Lloyd George was determined, as early as March 1917, that Palestine should become British and that he would rely on its conquest by British troops to obtain the abrogation of the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Answer 3

Declaration of Independence, with signers' biographies, and other people, events, and acts.
www.ushistory.org/declaration/ -

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(United_States)

try this site seems very informative

Answer 5

1. http://search.live.com/results.aspx?srch=104&FORM=AS4&q=Proclamation+of+1763

2. http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Admiralty

3.http://www.norfolk.k12.ma.us/Pages/NPS_DiscoveryZone/showcase/kaufman/revolution/R2R.html

Hope this helps.....