The Mayflower Compact was the first document.
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1. The United States is in the Western Hemisphere (because it is west of the prime meridian) and also in the Northern Hemisphere (because it is north of the equator).
The first Continental Congress had gathered to discuss the Coercive Acts, but the Americans had called them the Intolerable Acts. It was British's way to punish Boston after the Boston Tea Party where men dressed as Native Americans dumped British tea into Boston harbor because of its tax.
Barbour and wright intimate that jefferson included in the declaration of independence a laundry list of alleged offenses that king george iii committed against the american colonists in order to convince their fellow colonists that they were doing the right thing in breaking from English ruling.
He stated that it is the duty of mankind to break free from a government when it has became a tyranny and don't guarantee human rights anymore. So, he included the list of alleged offenses in order to prove how the English government has become a tyranny against the colonies.
