Why was it important for all the colonies to sign the Dec of Independence during the Amer. Revolution?
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As Benjamin Franklin said, "We should all hang together, or we shall surely hang separately"
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==============================================\nThe American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence,[1] was a war between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies, who declared their independence as the United States of America in 1776.\n\nThe war was the culmination of the American Revolution, a colonial struggle against political and economic policies of the British Empire. The war eventually widened far beyond British North America; many Native Americans also fought on both sides of the conflict.\n\nThroughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority to capture and occupy coastal cities, but control of the countryside (where most of the population lived) largely eluded them. After an American victory at Saratoga in 1777, France, Spain, and the Netherlands entered the war against Great Britain. French involvement proved decisive, with a naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a British army at Yorktown in 1781. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 recognized the independence of the United States.\n\n\n==============================================\n\nA GOOD ONE ABOUT  Revolutionary War
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The patriots pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, in the fight to free the United States from Britain.\n\nIsaac Sears lost his fortune.\nJohn Paul Jones lost "a great part" of his fortune\n\nFive signers of the Declaration of Independence were captured by the British, and were tortured as traitors before they died.\n\nNine died from wounds they received, fighting in the Revolutionary War\n\nCarter Braxton, a wealthy planter and trader from Virginia, lost his ships in the War and had to sell everything, to pay his debts. He died in rags.\n\nThomas McKeam lost everything.\n\nThomas Nelson, Jr. died bankrupt.\n\nFrancis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed.\n\nJohn Hart's fields and gristmill were destroyed. \n\nPhilip Livingston lost several properties to the British occupation of New York and sold off others to support the war effort, and he did not recover them.\n\nOf course, the patriots, in the American Revolution, were not limited to those who signed the Declaration of Independence or who rose to prominence, later. Wherever the British went, there was hardship and destruction.
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This is actually from the Declaration of Independence...\n"...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thomas Jefferson, who wrote it, had not quite determined whether or not the colonists had a natural right to property. But he did have great conviction that the British, or any government for that matter, could not impede their God-given right to live out their lives without tyrannical, micromanaging elitists controling every aspect of life.
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Yorktown\nAmerican Revolution, 1781\n\nThe Battle of Yorktown was the climax of the American Revolution and directly led to the independence of the United States of America. While others may have been larger and more dramatic, no battle in history has been more influential. From the days following their victory at Yorktown, Americans have steadily gained power and influence up to their present role as the world's most prosperous nation and the only military superpower.\n\nThe idea that a group of poorly armed, loosely organized colonists would have the audacity to challenge the massive, experienced army and navy of their rulers seemed impossible when the revolution's first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord in 1775. The rebels' chances of success seemed even more remote when the American colonies formally declared their independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776.\n\nDespite the huge imbalance of power, the Americans understood that time was on their side. As long as George Washington and his army remained in the field, the newly declared republic survived. Washington did not have to defeat the British; he simply had to avoid having the British defeat him. The longer the war lasted, the greater the odds that the British would become involved in wars that threatened their own islands and that the British public would tire of the war and its costs.\n\nDuring the first year of the war, Washington had lost a series of battles around New York but had withdrawn the bulk of his army to fight another day. Many British commanders had unintentionally aided the American effort with their military ineptness and their belief that the rebels would diplomatically end their revolt.\n\nParticipants on both sides, as well as observers around the world, had begun to take the possibility of American independence seriously only with their victory at Saratoga in October 1777. The poorly executed plan by the British to divide New England from the southern colonies by occupying New York's Hudson River Valley had resulted not only in the surrender of nearly six thousand British soldiers but also in the recognition of the United States as an independent nation by France. The American victory at Saratoga and the entrance of the French into the war also drew Spain and the Netherlands into the fight against England.\n\nBy 1778, neither the British nor the Americans could gain the upper hand, as the war in the northern colonies had come to a stalemate. The British continued to occupy New York and Boston, but they were too weak to crush the rebel army. Washington similarly lacked the strength to attack the British fortresses.\n\nIn late 1778, British commander General Henry Clinton used his superior sea mobility to transfer much of his army under Lord Charles Cornwallis to the southern colonies, where they occupied Savannah and then Charleston the following year. Clinton's plan was for Cornwallis to neutralize the southern colonies, which would cut off supplies to Washington and isolate his army.\n\nWashington countered by dispatching Nathanael Greene, one of his ablest generals, to command the American troops in the South. From 1779 to 1781, Greene and other American commanders fought a guerrilla-like campaign of hit-and-run maneuvers that depleted and exhausted the British. In the spring of 1781, Cornwallis marched into North Carolina and then into Yorktown on the Virginia peninsula flanked by the York and James Rivers. Although his army outnumbered the Americans two to one, Cornwallis fortified the small town and waited for additional men and supplies to arrive by ship.\n\nMeanwhile, more than seven thousand French infantrymen, commanded by Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau, joined Washington's army outside New York, and a French fleet led by Admiral Paul de Grasse waited in the Caribbean, preparing to sail northward. Washington wanted de Grasse to blockade New York while the combined American-French armies attacked Clinton&#39
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If you're going to include congresses before the signing of the Constitution, then whether or not to declare independence was the first big controversy. Otherwise, one of the first debates in the Congress of the United States was what to call the President (His Higness, His Excellency, Mr. President, etc.)
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Well, that question is a very broad question, but I can give the general overview.  The newly created government in the 1780's is most likely reffering to the United States Constitution.  This Constitution was created due to the lack of federal rights in the Articles of Confederation.  The Articles did not allow Congress to tax or recieve soldiers from the independent states but rather ask for them.  The Articles were considered weak and they were essentially thrown out.  Whether this was legal or not is debatable.  The British also had a great impact on the Constitution because they "abused" the Americans during the revolution and before the revolution.  The Americans therefore, created the Bill of Rights were granted rights to the common man and the states.  Arguably, most of the Bill of Rights have some sort of connection to what the British had done before and during the revolution such as the Second Amendment.  The Second Amendment states, "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."  Many believe this was a response to the Quartering Act Britain established before the revolution.  Many Enlightenment ideas from Britain (like philsophers from John Locke) and other European countries greatly influenced the American government.  Ideas such as freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and others sparked from Europea.  The ideas of the individual "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration of Independence were derived from John Locke's "Life, Liberty, and Property."  Of course, the framers (of the Constitution) were very intelligent and substituted "property" with "Pursuit of Happiness" because they did not want to debate over owning slaves yet (for that would occur later in the Civil War).
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when the Declaration of Independence was first written, Ben Franklin wanted to put "life, liberty and persuit of property" as the truths held self-evident.  The other people who worked with him and signed the Declaration convinced him to change it to "persuit of happiness".
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The U.S.A. has  been a country for 229 years. Declared independence in 1776
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Though the Fourth of July is almost iconic to Americans, some claim the date itself is somewhat arbitrary. New Englanders had been fighting Britain since April 1775. The first motion in the Continental Congress for independence was made on June 8. After hard debate, the Congress voted unanimously (12-0), but secretly, for independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on July 2. The Congress reworked the text of the Declaration until a little after eleven o'clock, July 4th, when twelve colonies voted for adoption and released an unsigned copy to the printers. (New York abstained from both votes.) Philadelphia celebrated the Declaration with public readings and bonfires on July 8. Not until August 2 would a fair printing be signed by the members of the Congress, but even that was kept secret to protect the members from British reprisal.
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?  Which colonies are you referring to? \nThe United States were no longer considered "colonies".  The American government had been officially recognized by the British Government after the Revolutionary War.\n\nAre you refering to other countries/colonies that were used as military bases in the Atlantic during the war?
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Well, there are lots of ideas in the Declaration, but the main idea is that the people of the 13 colonies (not yet the United States of America) were tired of not being treated equally as British citizens. They were unfairly taxed and had no representation in Parliment ("for imposing taxes on us without our consent").  Many of the specific ideas of the Declaration are jabs at the king, letting the world know why they felt the need to separate from the British thrown (for instance, "He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature"). Many of the amendments in the Bill of Rights are based on things that the king of England did to the colonists.
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Instead of being like everyone else and grab a copy of a history book or look the answer up on the Internet and copying it word for word, let me sum it up for you in a way that if you are writing a report you can use in the info without the plagiarism.\nNow as to your question... The American Revolution was to escape  prosecution from "Mother England". Out forefathers wanted the right to have their own religious beliefs, be free from taxes from England and to create a country of our own with our own laws and government. To create a government for the people and to take power away from one person(a king) and give it to many people so that we wouldn't have to live under the beliefs of one person and one person alone.\nHope this helps
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"The American Revolution ended in 1783, but the young republic it created faced a difficult time. Nowhere was this more evident than to the farmers of Western Massachusetts. A severe economic depression forced people unable to pay their debts first into court, then into jail . . . The Rebellion started with petitions to the government for paper currency, lower taxes, and judicial reform. When this failed, the farmers took more drastic measures. The first target of the Rebellion was the Court of Common Pleas at Northampton, which an armed body of farmers kept from sitting on August 29th. Similar groups of insurgents stormed the courts at Worcester, Concord, Taunton, and Great Barrington in the following weeks. They hoped to prevent further trials and imprisonment of debtors."\n\nRead more using the link below.
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In short, because anything of significance required unanimous agreement, it was becoming unwieldy to act as a general government.  Two areas where this stood out.  One was acting as the singular contact with foreign sovereignties.  The other was in collecting funds from the States to pay for the general government.
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I believe you are confusing the Articles of Confederation (AC)and the Declaration of Independance (DI). The DI was not ratified but approved by the Congress on July 4, 1776. On the other hand, the AC was passed by Congress in November 1777 but were not ratified by all the states until 1781.
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There were issues regarding the Brittish Crown's decision to have the Colonies of America pay for the French & Indian War.  This led to an outcry of "Taxation without Representation," the notion that Americans were being taxed by the Brittish Parlaiment without the American's voices being officially heard during the consideration.  \nAs a result, many started toying with the idea of independent rule.  This led to many other events and eventually the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution.  David McCullough's 1776 is a great book to use as a guide.