THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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detailed the colonists’ complaints with King George.
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listed a man’s natural rights.
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introduced the Declaration.
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concluded the Declaration, declaring America a free country.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -They specifically blame King George III 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-3: -Within the Declaration of Independence is a list of grievances that Jefferson believed the King of Great Britain, George III, had committed against the Colonists. These grievances outlined the main reasons behind why the Colonists had gone to war during the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.