USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which complaint is listed here:"He had dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.”
A
quartering soldiers
B
breaking apart legislatures
C
limiting judicial power
D
suspending trial by jury
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -They asserted specifically that George III had “dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.” The Declaration of Independence established free government in a natural rights republic based upon equality.

Detailed explanation-2: -The three main themes of the colonists’ complaints are individual rights, representation, and taxation. Individual rights are rights guaranteed to people. Representation in the English Parliament was important to the colonists, and the colonists believed that taxation without representation was wrong.

Detailed explanation-3: -Quartering British troops in the colonies. Not punishing these troops when they harm colonists. Cutting off the colonists’ trade with the rest of the world. Taxing the colonists without their permission.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 27 grievances is a section from the United States Declaration of Independence. The Second Continental Congress’s Committee of Five drafted the document listing their grievances with the actions and decisions of King George III with regard to the Colonies in North America.

Detailed explanation-5: -Grievance 20 "For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies."

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