Most Important Influence On The Declaration Of Independence
10/29/12 The Great Awakening This is a document based essay about the most important influence on The Declaration of Independence. The most important influence was The Great Awakening because it was an emotion packed Christian movement that went through the colonies between the 1730s and the 1740s. The Great Awakening was a cry for individual’s rights and independence. It led the People to be able to break away from tyranny. The ideas from The Great Awakening are what led to The Declaration of Independence. These ideas are what make The Declaration of Independence such a strong document and are the heart of the document. They are like the hard drive to a computer. The Declaration of Independence states that everyone has equal rights and those rights are given by God.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”- Declaration of Independence, 1776. God is the one who gave us our rights and that everyone is created equal, no matter what gender or color you are. No one can take our rights according to God and the Declaration of Independence. “Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new forms of government.”- Declaration of Independence, 1776. If the Government does not obey God’s laws and the Peoples freedom, the Peoples can get rid of the Government and make a new one, as long as they believe they could do better. King George III did not respect God’s rules and took the freedom from the People of the Colonies. He had British soldiers live in people’s houses and made their lives terrible. After the Colonists won the war, people finally got
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”- Declaration of Independence, 1776. God is the one who gave us our rights and that everyone is created equal, no matter what gender or color you are. No one can take our rights according to God and the Declaration of Independence. “Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new forms of government.”- Declaration of Independence, 1776. If the Government does not obey God’s laws and the Peoples freedom, the Peoples can get rid of the Government and make a new one, as long as they believe they could do better. King George III did not respect God’s rules and took the freedom from the People of the Colonies. He had British soldiers live in people’s houses and made their lives terrible. After the Colonists won the war, people finally got