The Revolutionary Pursuit

The Declaration of Independence helped us become free.  The 13 colonies wanted freedom form England.  Before they created the declaration the King was cutting off the trade from the other parts of the world to the 13 colonies.  He also wanted taxes from them.  There was the Stamp act, there was the Town shed acts, and the Coercive acts.  To declare their freedom they wrote the Declaration of Independence.  The document was written by Thomas Jefferson in June and July in 1776.  On independence day the document was approved by the congress.  It was signed by the Continental Congress.  They sent the document to England for the king to sign it.  But he wouldn't sign it.  He declared war!  But the 13 colonists had Spain and France to join them.  The war started in 1775 and ended in 1783.  When the treaty of Paris started.  So the King named King George the III surrendered he signed the document.  Afterward the colonists were very happy that they were free.  Without the Declaration of Independence we would still be ruled by England.