Read the following passage from the Declaration of Independence: 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 history of
the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
How does Thomas Jefferson support the argument that the colonists should
separate from Great Britain?
A. By explaining that the king of Britain has repeatedly oppressed the
colonies
O B. By suggesting an alternate "Systems of Government the colonists
could form
C. By stating that the king of Britain treated the colonies with "patient
sufferance
D. By referring to a previous document that makes the same
argument