When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, the phrase "all men are created equal" was mostly understood to apply to which group?

All people living in the colonies

Only the soldiers in the Continental Army

Every person born in North America

Which statement best describes the situation for groups like women and enslaved people when the Declaration was written?

They were immediately granted new freedoms.

They were promised equality in the near future.

They were not granted the same rights as the white men who wrote the document.

Their rights were protected by the King of England.

They argued that it should be completely rewritten.

They used its promise of equality to argue for more rights.

They claimed the document was no longer relevant.

They ignored its message and created new documents.

That the meaning of America's founding ideals has been debated and expanded over time.

That the original meaning of the phrase has never been questioned.

That the Declaration of Independence quickly became outdated after the revolution.

That its ideas were only important during the 1700s.

The writers were not concerned with freedom.

The ideal of equality was not yet applied to all people.

All the colonies were united against slavery.

Great Britain supported the practice of slavery.