They wanted to be independent from being in control of other nations.
Hope that helps.
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Freedom of speech because everything else is already in the state
The Bahamas are in North America, the natural resources are salt, aragonite, timber, and arable land.
C) It was originally written to express sorrow, If you have read the elegiac poetry, you can easily notice it is full of sorrow, so this answer would make the most sense to me.