The Declaration of Independence, signed and written in 1776, was written by Thomas Jefferson, the 2nd president of the United States. The Declaration of Independence was a document stating America’s independence from the tyrant of Great Britain. The colonists wanted their independence and fought a whole war to achieve it. They wanted freedom from Britain because they were being heavily taxed, having their privacy taken away, and mistreated; “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” (DOY) Jefferson wrote this in the Declaration of Independence and was stating that the King refused the colonist’s basic rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness causing the colonists to become angry
