Its primary author, Thomas Jefferson, wrote the Declaration as a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, and as a statement announcing that the thirteen American Colonies were no longer
This is true but i would be careful because it may ask later if they were first and that would be false portugal was there first but hindu and buddhist monks did travel and settle in southeast asia, so bottom line this is true
