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Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence expresses the ideals on which the United States was founded and the reasons for separation from Great Britain. Read a TranscriptConstitutionBill of RightsThe Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. It defines citizens’ and states’ rights in relation to the Government. Read a TranscriptShop the Archives StoreVisit the Charters of FreedomThe Rotunda for the Charters of FreedomLocated on the upper level of the National Archives museum, the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom is the permanent home of the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights. Designed by architect John Russell Pope as a shrine to American democracy, the ornate Rotunda with its soaring domed ceiling also features two murals by Barry Faulkner, depicting fictional scenes of the “presentations” of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Explore the Founders OnlineFounders OnlineThrough Founders Online, you can read and search through thousands of documents and records to and from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic. Their letters and journals are a kind of "first draft" of the Charters of Freedom. View Other Milestone DocumentsMilestone DocumentsMilestone documents are primary source documents that highlight pivotal moments in the course of American history or government. They are some of the most-viewed and sought-out documents in the holdings of the National Archives. “We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. The mineralwealth of the country, the coal, iron, oil, gas and the like, does not reproduce itself, and therefore iscertain to be exhausted ultimately; and wastefulness in dealing with it to-day means that ourdescendants will feel the exhaustion a generation or two before they otherwise would. . . . Yet weseem as a nation to be willing to proceed in this matter with happy-go-lucky indifference even to theimmediate future. It is this attitude which permits the self-interest of a very few persons to weigh formore than the ultimate interest of all our people.”President Theodore Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress, 1907____7.Which of the following was the most direct cause of the ideas expressed in the excerpt? The questions below refer to the following quote.“If we would hold to our political democracy, some pains must be taken to keep on common groundin our human experiences, and to some solidarity in our ethical conceptions. And if we discover thatmen of low ideals and corrupt practice are forming popular political standards simply because suchmen stand by and for and with the people, then nothing remains but to obtain a like sense ofidentification before we can hope to modify ethical standards.”Jane Addams, Why the Ward Boss Rules, 1898 ____8.Which of the following reform movements expressed ideas most similar to those expressed in theexcerpt? The questions below refer to the following excerpt."In our efforts for recovery we have avoided, on the one hand, the theory that business should andmust be taken over into an all-embracing Government. We have avoided, on the other hand, theequally untenable theory that it is an interference with liberty to offer reasonable help when privateenterprise is in need of help. The course we have followed fits the American practice of Government,a practice of taking action step by step, of regulating only to meet concrete needs, a practice ofcourageous recognition of change." |
The ideas expressed in the excerpt are most similar to which of the following?
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