The ideals of the Enlightenment had a major impact on the colonists and the founding fathers of the United States used many of these ideas in their new government. Major elements of our democracy, such as “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” came from Enlightenment writers like Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Voltaire. Even Thomas Jefferson’s famous phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” from the Declaration of Independence was adapted from John Locke’s phrase “Life, Liberty, and Property.”
They established Rome as the dominant power in the Western Mediterranean, and Rome's move to punish Macedonia for intervening on Carthage's side, after the Second punic War, enmeshed it in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Answer: persuade colonists that the colonies should become independent
Explanation:
The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence<span>, adopting the </span>United States Declaration of Independence<span> on July 4, 1776. The Congress acted as the </span>de facto<span> national government of what became the United States by raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties such as the </span>Olive Branch Petition.<span>[1]</span>