Task: Read and analyze the following documents, applying your social studies knowledge and skills to write a short essay of two or three paragraphs in which you: * Describe the historical context surrounding these documents
* Identify and explain the relationship between the events and/or ideas found in these
documents (Cause and Effect, or Similarity/Difference, or Turning Point)

In developing your short essay answer of two or three paragraphs, be sure to keep these explanations in mind:

Describe means “to illustrate something in words or tell about it”
Historical Context refers to “the relevant historical circumstances surrounding or connecting the events, ideas, or developments in these documents”
Identify means “to put a name to or to name”
Explain means “to make plain or understandable; to give reasons for or causes of; to show the logical development or relationship of”

Types of Relationships:
Cause refers to “something that contributes to the occurrence of an event, the rise of an idea, or the bringing about of a development”
Effect refers to “what happens as a consequence (result, impact, outcome) of an event, anidea, or a development”

Similarity tells how “something is alike or the same as something else”
Difference tells how “something is not alike or not the same as something else”

Turning Point is “a major event, idea, or historical development that brings about significant change. It can be local, regional, national, or global”

Document 1:

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is, the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth enquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind…

To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity [future generations]. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual [never ending] preference to all others for ever, and though himself might deserve some decent degree of honors of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them. One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind a donkey for a lion.

Source: Common Sense, Thomas Paine,
January 10, 1776

Document 2:

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Source: Declaration of Independence,
July 4, 1776

pls answer lol i am just confused how to state the relationship between the two documents