Which of the following was NOT a reason for the Declaration of Independence

Question

A.To apologize for their rebellious behavior?

B.To list the problems that the Colonies had with the British Government?

C.To identify what a government should do?

D.To notify the King of England that the Colonies were no longer part of Great Britain

Answer 1

In the Declaration of Independence the British colonists in America declared their reasons for wanting to break away from Britain. They had been tasked with paying for the French and Indian War through taxes that they had not approved. This went directly against their ideas of how laws (and taxes) should implemented after first consulting with the people "no taxation without representation." So when the colonists wrote the Declaration they listed out their grievances with King George III and explained why they wanted to establish a government/ country of their own.

You have to think of these things as you answer your question.

Answer 2

A. It was not intended as an apology, not in any normal sense of the word "apology"

(except in some more archaic use of the term "apology" as with Christians who argue "apologetics" yet they are not apologizing in any usual sense of the word.