In the Declaration of Independence, Where Did Thomas Jefferson Place

question 44

Multiple Choice

In the Declaration of Independence, where did Thomas Jefferson place the blame for the problems between the colonies and Great Britain?

• A) Parliament, because of the oppressive legislation that it had passed over ten years
• B) King George III, because of the crown's apparent intention to establish despotism
• C) the king's ministers, because they had refused to compromise and had turned the king and Parliament against the colonies
• D) British merchants, because their drive for personal profits had caused them to ignore the greater good of the empire
• E) all of these choices

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