THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY
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convince Great Britain to stop mercantilism in North America
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force Spain to support a Revolutionary War against England
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proclaim war on Great Britain due to lack of economic rights
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state the colonists’ reasons for separating from Great Britain
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Detailed explanation-1: -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 Declaration of Independence (1776) built on the American settlers’ common goals of unity, freedom and protection of individual rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -The final draft of the Declaration of Independence contains a preamble, a list of grievances, a formal declaration of independence, and signatures.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the 1770s, many colonists were angry because they did not have self-government. This meant that they could not govern themselves and make their own laws. They had to pay high taxes to the king. They felt that they were paying taxes to a government where they had no representation.