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AP U.S. History Exam 1.11. Which of the following quotes from the Declaration of Independence most accurately reflects the main idea of the excerpt?

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00:00

[ musical flourish ]

00:02

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Declaration of Independence,

00:06

a teenager's last-ditch effort to becoming her own person.

00:10

Yeah. That.

00:12

All right, give this excerpt a read.

00:14

[ mumbles ]

00:23

All right, and the question:

00:25

Why are we doing all of this mumbling?

00:26

Second question:

00:28

Which of the following quotes from the Declaration of Independence

00:30

most accurately reflects the main idea of the excerpt?

00:34

All right, and here are your potential answers.

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[ mumbles ]

00:41

All right. Let's see if we can parse out

00:44

what Mr. Paine is going for here.

00:46

He writes that the king has had "a long and violent

00:49

abuse of power" and that

00:51

"the good people of this country are grievously oppressed."

00:55

So no hard feelings against the monarchy, right there, T-Paine?

00:59

All right, well, let's see which answer best matches this

01:02

rage against the king.

01:04

Is the quote from the Declaration of Independence that

01:06

most accurately reflects this sentiment B -

01:09

"...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain

01:12

unalienable Rights."?

01:14

Actually, many scholars think this guarantee of life,

01:16

liberty, and the pursuit of happiness was inspired

01:19

by John Locke, not Thomas Paine.

01:22

Same goes for that whole idea about deriving power

01:25

"from the consent of the governed."

01:27

So that bumps out B and D.

01:29

What about C?

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"... a decent respect to the opinions of mankind

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requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

01:40

Huh. Well that's just saying that if you're gonna declare independence,

01:43

you should probably have some good reasons

01:45

and then explain them to everybody else.

01:47

So it's not C, either.

01:49

Which means that the quote that most accurately reflects

01:52

the main idea of the excerpt is A -

01:54

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive

01:57

of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."

02:02

In the excerpt, Paine says the King's abuses of power

02:05

gave the colonists "an undoubted privilege... to reject it."

02:09

In the Declaration of Independence, this was rephrased as the

02:12

people's right to alter or abolish it.

02:15

So the correct answer is A.

02:17

And it's clear that Thomas sure had a way of

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bringing the "Paine" to the British government.

02:22

[ mumbling with British accent ]

02:25

[ animal groaning ]

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