The goal mainly used to justify them at the time was to recapture the Holy Land from invading Muslims.
D. Slavery was evil
In his original draft of the Declaration, Jefferson condemned the slave trade carried on by the British. (Yes, Jefferson himself owned slaves he had inherited, but saw an eventual emancipation of slaves as something that would need to be done over time.) The paragraph in the draft of the Declaration said that the King of England "has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty" by capturing, transporting and selling human beings from the distant land of Africa. He called the "market where men should be bought and sold" an "execrable commerce" carried on by authority of the British crown. ("Execrable" is an adjective related to excrement -- something extremely nasty.)
Georgia and South Carolina would not join in voting for independence from Britain unless the paragraph about the evil of the slave trade was omitted, and so it was omitted from the final version.
if someone is considered not guilty for a crime
he cannot be tried again for that crime
This is false. The first conflicts were in Boston, Massachusetts.<span />
The main reason why the creation of the Suez Canal resulted in this interest is because it connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, making trade far easier and more profitable.
