THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY
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the King of America
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the King of Britain
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the Governor of the colonies
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the Government officials in each colony
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pulling down the Statue of King George III Its goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies, and to announce the creation of a new country. The introductory sentence states the Declaration’s main purpose, to explain the colonists’ right to revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The rough draft of the Declaration, reflecting solely Jefferson’s ideals prior to editing by the other Founding Fathers, uses the pronoun ‘he’ in reference to King George 26 times.
Detailed explanation-3: -That these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
Detailed explanation-4: -Even as late as June 1775, Thomas Jefferson said that he would “rather be in dependence on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation upon earth, or than on no nation.” But this favorable relationship began to face serious challenges in the wake of the Seven Years’ War.