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.
Very abbreviated answer: The Black Death was another name for the plague, this claws caused by rats and lead to death of a large sum of the population.
He was afraid that Britain would ask for those territories as a part of their armistice so he decided to sell them quickly to the US and earn some money for the country while messing with Britain.
No, not everyone in the world is free, but a great majority is.
Capturing azov gave Russia access to the black sea and because Russia had the longest coastline in the world, it had access to many ports year round