Declaration of Independence Word Search

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TQSDECLARATIONE

HWMCMHIRLONSMOQ

AEFNLRDRAFTEBUU

QFRTHSHNUIDNUDA

PHILADELPHIAUEL

ZKGPUNALIENABLE

SLHBQKUXOSSTBEL

CATZTYRANNYLNGI

OCSAYPINVTFBSAB

NPARCHMENTMIITE

GZMRULLDMSIPGER

RHAPPINESSOANAT

EINDEPENDENCEIY

SFWGRIEVANCEREI

SSBJILLAEPSGAYL

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UnalienableUNALIENABLE
RightsRIGHTS
LibertyLIBERTY
HappinessHAPPINESS
EqualEQUAL
TyrannyTYRANNY
GrievanceGRIEVANCE
DeclarationDECLARATION
IndependenceINDEPENDENCE
CongressCONGRESS
DelegateDELEGATE
DraftDRAFT
PhiladelphiaPHILADELPHIA
ParchmentPARCHMENT
SignerSIGNER

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Answer key: Declaration of Independence Word Search

TQSDECLARATIONE

HWMCMHIRLONSMOQ

AEFNLRDRAFTEBUU

QFRTHSHNUIDNUDA

PHILADELPHIAUEL

ZKGPUNALIENABLE

SLHBQKUXOSSTBEL

CATZTYRANNYLNGI

OCSAYPINVTFBSAB

NPARCHMENTMIITE

GZMRULLDMSIPGER

RHAPPINESSOANAT

EINDEPENDENCEIY

SFWGRIEVANCEREI

SSBJILLAEPSGAYL

UNALIENABLE, RIGHTS, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS, EQUAL, TYRANNY, GRIEVANCE, DECLARATION, INDEPENDENCE, CONGRESS, DELEGATE, DRAFT, PHILADELPHIA, PARCHMENT, SIGNER

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Words of the Declaration 45

Abolish To do away with. The people may alter a destructive government or do this to it.
Absolved Set free from a duty, as the States declare themselves from loyalty to the Crown.
Allegiance Loyalty owed to a ruler. The States are absolved from all of it to the British Crown.
Alliances Pacts between nations. The States claim full power to contract them.
Brethren An old word for brothers, used in the text for the British people.
Candid World The fair-minded public to whom 'let Facts be submitted'.
Colonies The last paragraph says 'these United' ones 'are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States'.
Commerce Trade between nations. The States claim full power to establish it.
Consent Agreement. Governments draw their just powers from that of the governed.
Creator The one who, the text says, endowed people with their rights.
Crown The British monarchy, to which the States end all allegiance.
Despotism Rule by one person with total power. The abuses show a design to bring it about.
Duty 'It is their right, it is their' this, to throw off such a government.
Endowed Given as a gift. The text uses it of people and their rights.

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Words of the Declaration, continued

Equal How all men are created, in the words of the second paragraph.
Fortunes The second of three things the signers pledge to each other.
Free Said of the States twice in the last paragraph, each time before 'and Independent'.
Governed The people who live under a government. Its just powers come from their consent.
Happiness The third named right is the pursuit of this.
Human Events The first line reads 'When in the Course of' these.
Independent Not ruled by another. 'Free and' this is said twice of the States in the last paragraph.
Injuries Wrongs. The King's record is 'a history of repeated' ones 'and usurpations'.
Kindred Family. The colonists appealed to 'the ties of our common' one.
Liberty Freedom. The second of the three named rights.
Life The first of the three rights named in the second paragraph.
Magnanimity Generosity of spirit. The colonists say they appealed to that of the British.
Mankind All people. 'A decent respect to the opinions of' them is why the causes are given.
Peace 'Enemies in War, in' this 'Friends': how the text will hold the British.
Pledge A solemn promise, made mutually by the signers in the last sentence.
Providence Divine care. The signers declare 'a firm reliance on the protection of' it.
Prudence Careful good sense. It says long-standing governments are not changed for light causes.
Pursuit A chase after something. The text joins it to Happiness.
Rectitude Rightness. The signers appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world for that of their intentions.
Rights What all people are endowed with. Three are named, beginning with Life.
Sacred Honor The last two words of the text, and the third thing the signers pledge.
Safety With Happiness, what a new government should seem most likely to bring.
Self-evident So plain that no proof is needed. 'We hold these truths to be' this.
Separation The parting from Britain. The first paragraph promises to give the causes of it.
Sufferance Putting up with wrongs. 'Such has been the patient' one 'of these Colonies'.
Thirteen How many united States the title names.
Truths What 'We hold' at the start of the second paragraph.
Tyranny Cruel, unjust rule. The King aimed at an absolute one over the States, the text says.
Unalienable The document's word for rights that cannot be taken or given away.
Unanimous Agreed by all. The second word of the title on the parchment.
Usurpations Seizures of power without right: 'a long train of abuses and' these.

Grievances Against the King 34

Abdicated Gave up. 'He has' done this to 'Government here', a charge says.
Abuses Wrongful acts: 'a long train of' them 'and usurpations'.
Arbitrary Ruling by will, not by law: the kind of government set up 'in a neighbouring Province'.
Assent Royal approval of a law. The first charge says the King refused it to wholesome laws.
Captive Taken prisoner. Citizens seized this way at sea were made to bear arms against their country.
Charters The colonies' founding papers. One charge is 'taking away' these.
Coasts 'Ravaged', in the charge that also lists plundered seas and burnt towns.
Dissolved Broken up. The King did this to Representative Houses repeatedly, a charge says.
Facts 'Let' these 'be submitted to a candid world' opens the list of charges.
Governors Royal officials forbidden to pass pressing laws until the King agreed.
Grievance A formal complaint. The list of them against the King fills the middle of the text.
High Seas The open ocean, where 'our fellow Citizens' were taken prisoner.
Judges A charge says the King made them depend on his will alone for their offices and pay.
Jurisdiction Legal authority. The colonies were put under one 'foreign to our constitution'.
King The ruler the charges are aimed at: 'the present' one 'of Great Britain'.
Legislatures Lawmaking bodies. One charge is 'suspending our own'.
Mercenaries Hired foreign soldiers. The King was sending 'large Armies' of them.
Migrations Moves to a new land. The King refused laws 'to encourage' them 'hither'.
Military A charge says the King made it 'independent of and superior to the Civil power'.
Naturalization Becoming a citizen of a new country. A charge says the King obstructed the laws for it.
Oppressions Cruel, unjust acts. 'In every stage of these' the colonists asked for redress.
Petition A written request. The colonists' repeated ones were 'answered only by repeated injury'.
Protection A charge says the King declared the colonies out of his, and waged war on them.
Quartering Housing 'large bodies of armed troops among us'.
Records Public papers. Lawmakers were made to meet far from the place where theirs were kept.
Redress The righting of a wrong, asked for 'in the most humble terms'.
Representation A voice in the legislature: 'a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only'.
Salaries Pay. Judges depended on the King's will for the amount and payment of theirs.
Standing Armies Troops kept 'in times of peace' without the consent of the lawmakers.
Swarms Great numbers. Officers were sent in these 'to harrass our people'.
Taxes Imposed 'on us without our Consent', a charge reads.
Trade 'Cutting off our' this 'with all parts of the world' is one charge.
Trial by Jury A benefit the colonists were deprived of 'in many cases'.
Tyrant A cruel ruler. A prince whose acts define one 'is unfit to be the ruler of a free people'.

Drafting and the Vote 29

Abstain To cast no vote, as New York did on July 2, 1776.
Adopted Approved by a vote, as the final wording was on July 4, 1776.
Baltimore Where Congress had the text printed in January 1777 with the signers' names.
Broadside A sheet printed on one side. Of the first printing, 26 copies are known.
Committee Five delegates were named to one on June 11, 1776, to prepare the statement.
Common Sense A pamphlet for independence published in January 1776 and sold by the thousands.
Conclusion The last of the five parts, where the colonies are declared free states.
Congress The Second Continental one adopted the final wording on July 4, 1776.
Continental The name of the Congress, and of the army it set up in June 1775.
Declaration A formal public statement. The first word of this document's everyday name.
Delegate A member a colony sent to Congress. Fifty-six of them signed.
Draft A first version of a text. One Virginia member of the committee wrote this one alone.
Independence Freedom from another country's rule, which Congress voted for on July 2, 1776.
Introduction The first of the document's five parts. It says the causes will be declared.
Journal The record book of Congress. A printed copy of the text was put into it for July 4.
July The month of the vote for independence, on the 2nd, and of the adoption, on the 4th.
New York The one colony that did not vote on July 2. Its convention approved on July 9.
Newspaper The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first one to print the text, on July 6, 1776.
Philadelphia The city where Congress met and the text was written, adopted and signed.
Preamble The part after the introduction, which sets out the self-evident principles.
President The presiding officer of Congress, first to sign the parchment.
Printer The tradesman whose shop set the text in type on the night of July 4.
Resolution A formal motion. A Virginia delegate read one for independence on June 7, 1776.
Revision Changing a text. Congress kept at it through July 3 and into the late morning of July 4.
Secretary The officer of Congress whose name, with the president's, stood on the first printing.
State House The Pennsylvania building where Congress sat, later called Independence Hall.
Treason The crime against the Crown that the delegates knew they were committing.
Virginia Home of the delegate who moved independence and of the one who wrote the draft.
Vote Each colony had one. Twelve said yes to independence on July 2, 1776.

The Parchment and Its Travels 29

Archives The National ones have kept the document since 1952.
August The month of the signing. The journal of Congress records it on the 2nd, in 1776.
Centennial A 100th anniversary. The document went back to Philadelphia for the one in 1876.
Chesapeake The bay a British fleet entered in August 1814, when the records were packed up.
Copperplate The engraved metal sheet from which 200 official parchment copies were struck.
Engraving The 1823 copy on copper. The National Archives transcription is taken from it.
Engrossed Written out in a large, clear hand as an official copy.
Enshrined Placed with honor. The ceremony at the National Archives was on December 15, 1952.
Facsimile An exact copy. An engraver finished one of the whole document in 1823.
Faded What the ink has done. In 1876 some signatures could not be seen at all.
Fort Knox The bullion depository where the document was kept during World War II.
Gristmill An unused one in Virginia sheltered the records, probably overnight, in August 1814.
Helium The gas sealed in with the document in 1951 to protect it.
Inkstand The holder used at the signing, and again for the Constitution in 1787.
Iron Gall Ink The acidic writing fluid the engrosser used, which bites into the surface.
Leesburg The Virginia town, 35 miles from the capital, where the document was kept in 1814.
Library The one of Congress kept the document from 1921 to 1952.
Linen Bags What a State Department clerk had made in 1814 to carry off the records.
Parchment The material of the signed sheet. Congress ordered the text engrossed on it on July 19, 1776.
Patent Office The Washington building where the document was shown from 1841 to 1876.
Potomac The river the document traveled up to reach the new capital in 1800.
Rolled How the sheet was probably stored at first, which wore the writing.
Rotunda The hall of the National Archives Museum where the document is on display.
Safe A fireproof one held the document at Independence Hall in 1876.
Signature A name in one's own hand. The first is bold and centered below the text.
Signer One of the 56 delegates whose names are on the parchment.
Sunlight The document hung opposite a window for 35 years, and this harmed its ink.
Wagon A light one carried the document to Baltimore in December 1776.
Washington The federal capital, where the document was moved in 1800.

How this list was compiled: Own work: the 137 words and every meaning were written for this page. The words of the first two lists were matched on October 16, 2026 against the National Archives transcription (https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript). Dates and the parchment's later history come from the Archives' The Declaration of Independence: A History (https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-history) and English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence. Licence: own work

How it works

This Declaration of Independence word search hides 15 words: Declaration, Independence, Liberty, Unalienable, Rights, Equal, Happiness, Grievance, Tyranny, Congress, Delegate, Draft, Parchment, Signer and Philadelphia. Four more lists cover the text, the charges, the vote and the parchment.

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Two lists come from the text itself

Start from a list splits the 137 words. Words of the Declaration (45) and Grievances Against the King (34) hold words the document itself uses, matched against the National Archives transcription. Grievance is the one exception: the text never uses it. Drafting and the Vote (29) and The Parchment and Its Travels (29) run from the pamphlet Common Sense to the Rotunda.

Meanings that point into the document

"The last two words of the text, and the third thing the signers pledge." is Sacred Honor. No person is a puzzle word. Type Jefferson, Hancock or Franklin on the last line of the list to add one to your Declaration of Independence word search printable.

Easy Declaration of Independence keeps to 16 words of 4 or 5 letters, such as Life, Free, Duty and Vote.
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Questions and answers

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Not on July 4, 1776: that is the day Congress adopted the wording. The journal of Congress records the signing of the parchment on August 2, 1776, and some delegates added their names later, the National Archives says.

How many people signed the Declaration of Independence?

Fifty-six delegates. The president of Congress signed first, centered below the text. The others signed by state from north to south, the National Archives says: New Hampshire's delegates began the list and Georgia's ended it.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson of Virginia wrote the draft for a committee of five. John Adams and Benjamin Franklin made a few changes, and Congress revised the text through July 3 and into the late morning of July 4, 1776.

How many grievances are in the Declaration of Independence?

Twenty-seven, by the usual count: 18 sentences that begin He has or He is, and 9 clauses that begin For. For the laws of 1774 that came before it, print the Intolerable Acts word search.

All 137 words

Words of the Declaration 45

Words of the Declaration, continued

Grievances Against the King 34

Drafting and the Vote 29

The Parchment and Its Travels 29

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