DR King

    South Carolinians served as delegates to the __second continental congress_______ when the ____declaration of independance____ was debated. These delegates were planters who represented the Lowcountry elite rather than the people of the backcountry. Thomas __lynch___, Thomas ____heyward____, Edward___rueledge___ and Arthur __middleton_________ signed the document. Each of these men went on to serve in the state ___military___ defending the independence that they had claimed, and also served in ____government___ after the war. The Declaration, based on the ideas of __________________________, stated the ideals of democracy including the principles of equality, the natural rights of “____________________, ____________________ and the pursuit of_______________,” the purpose of government to “secure those rights,” and the “right of the people to alter or abolish” government when natural rights are not protected by government. It then made the case that the King, not the _________, had violated the rights of the colonists. The litany of actions that “He” did was designed to break the bonds between the King and his __________________ subjects in the colonies and to unify the new nation against a common enemy.