Investigation Declaration

Game Features:
- Multiple paths to completion: track Natural Rights, State Sovereignty, the Social Contract, or complete them all!
- Explore 10 locations across the Atlantic world to collect evidence and connect.
- Historical scenes enhanced by a narrative and rich material culture.
- Mad-lib style activity links locations based on the evidence you collect along the way.

For English Language Learners: This game offers a support tool, Spanish translation, English voiceover, and glossary.

Teachers: Visit the iCivics """"teach"""" page to check out classroom resources for Investigation Declaration!

Learning Objectives:
- Track a set of Enlightenment ideas that inspired and followed the Declaration of Independence, particularly between 1750 and 1850.
- Draw ideological cause-and-effect connections between historical events.
- Identify and define the concepts of natural rights, the Social Contract, and state sovereignty.
- Understand the roles of time and geography in the spread of ideas.
- Describe methods by which ideas were transmitted during this time period: trade, written communications, migration, and print.
- Become familiar with ideas, people, locations, and events that influenced declarations of rights and freedoms during this time period.

Made in partnership with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation