Reference no: EM133573805
Read a few of the grievances straight from the Declaration of Independence. Then translate them into modern day English by matching the real text to the correct meaning.
The King restricted immigration to the colonies and raised property taxes.
The King has made soldiers to be above the law and system of justice.
The King has allowed the British Navy to be like pirates; forcing colonists captured at sea to kill family and friends to have their own lives spared
The King has hired and paid a foreign army to fight and kill colonists
The King wouldn't pass laws unless colonists gave up their right to representation.
Instead of protecting the colonies, the King is waging a war against us
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & per?dyscarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of acivilized nation.