Answer:
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.
Explanation:
The name of the plan for government the pilgrims created before leaving the Mayflower in the New World was referred to as the Mayflower Compact, and was one of the first written documents of its kind in North America.
Answer:
Confederate territories
Explanation:
Basically the south declared independence from the union and declared themselves the Confederate states of America. Lincoln was able to inflict the Emancipation Proclamation in the South because it was a separate nation.
Temporarily balanced the interests of the North and South. It couldn't prevent the civil war though.
