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EMERGENCE OF USA

FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES

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Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ____ But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776The right identified in this excerpt was later used by-
A
Southern states to justify their sucession in 1860
B
slaves threatening to rebel in the South before the Civil War
C
the Populist Party in favor of adopting a silver backed money
D
the mormons to explain their move to the Utah Territory
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jefferson is referring to the hard work and deep thought that the founding fathers put into establishing a working government in the 1780s. The government is supposed to be by and for the people. Therefore, the system is carefully set up and should not be changed unless there is a very serious, heavy reason to do so.

Detailed explanation-2: -The final draft of the Declaration of Independence contains a preamble, a list of grievances, a formal declaration of independence, and signatures.

Detailed explanation-3: -On July 4, 1776, when the Continental Congress adopted the historic text drafted by Thomas Jefferson, they did not intend it to mean individual equality. Rather, what they declared was that American colonists, as a people, had the same rights to self-government as other nations.

Detailed explanation-4: -The second paragraph of the first article in the Declaration of Independence contains the phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” is on exhibit in the Library of Congress.

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