Were the American Colonies Ready for Independence?
Were the American Colonies Ready for Independence?
To decide whether or not the colonies were ready for independence at that stage of American history is very strange. The colonies of that time were very different in a lot of ways. Many of those ways were so big that if they would have waited a few more years, the problems would have never arose and a lot of the differences would have been solved rather easy. But instead the colonies wanted to become united in such a way that the differences were set-aside until the Declaration of Independence was signed. After the declaration was signed the problems arose and the colonies began to have many problems with itself as a whole.
The problem that I found by signing this so early was that I don’t think that the colonies were sure of what was really to be enforced of the declaration. One of the mainstream problems that I found by doing this was that they were not sure of who was to be independent. Were the slaves that the colonies received from England to be independent? Or was it only the people that had some sort of high power with the colonies, someone that really meant something to all this. This is some of the things that seem to have been very questionable when the colonies were said to be set free. To clarify the word free, it does mean being able to do anything and have no limitations, but why were the slaves still being called slaves?
An additional problem that I found with signing this is that the people that signed the declaration were not the ones that went out and later fought for the independence. The people that signed it were very high class, powerful men. By having some of the middle class people sign it would have put more significance in the declaration because these men may have put more into the declaration and more into not letting the war with the British ever occur. But instead, the men of elevated class, and dominant role signed the declaration, and then soon after the Colonies fought the British for its freedom. But when they fought, the men who signed that powerful document were not the individuals that later went out and fought the British...