By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.
1. (Religious answer) Because Abraham wouldn't worship false idols with his nephew, so he and his wife Sarah, left to settle in a different land which happened to be in the fertile crescent.
2. Because being close to the rivers and the floods made good farm land.
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The United Nations decided that they needed to have a peace-keeping force, a middle man, and treaties, so that they could try to stop wars from happening.
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B the right to public trials.