SE English Language Arts 12_S1_2020
Identifying an Author's Purpose
Based on the passage, what is the purpose of the
Declaration of Independence?
to provide a set of rules and regulations for the
United States
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.--Such has
been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is
now the necessity which constrains them to alter their
former Systems of Government
--The Declaration of Independence,
Thomas Jefferson
to justify the American colonists' desire for freedom
from British rule
to establish new settlements and colonies in
America
to encourage England to become a democracy
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