Declaration of Independence

Q1: PREDICTION:
- King George & The Candid World 
Q2: ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, IN WHAT SENSE ARE "ALL MEN CREATED EQUAL?"
- Meaning all free, property owning males are created equal.
Q3: DURING THE 1700S, MANY KINGS BELIEVED IN "DIVINE RIGHT", AND CLAIMED THEY GOT THEIR POWER TO RULE FROM GOD. ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WHO GRANTS KINGS/GOVERNMENTS THE RIGHT TO RULE?
- Governments are instutited among men.
Q4: WHEN SHOULD PEOPLE REVOLT? SHOULD THEY DO SO OFTEN?
- If the government makes a long line of poor decisions dealing with diminishing security for the people then a revolt is necessary, and should not be done often.

LIST OF GRIEVIANCES & SUMMARIES
1. This charge relates to the King's opposition to colonial laws passed to encourage immigration to America. The British government feared that such encouragement would reduce the population of England and lure away workers who would otherwise be employed in its domestic industries.
2. This charge refers to additional customs officials and military courts established by the British government in the colonies, in an effort to enforce trade laws and prevent smuggling.
3. This refers to the fact that at the end of the Seven Years' War with France, English troops were not withdrawn from the colonies. Indeed, the Quartering Act, passed by the British government in 1765, made the colonies liable for supporting the troops. 
4. This charge refers to the Navigation Acts.
5. This charge refers to the Stamp tac of the early 1760s and other major causes of the quarrel between the Ameriicans and the British. It occasioned the first strong articulation of the principle "no taxation without representation", and was soon extended to the whole conduct of government. No just taxes, but all actBs of government must be by "the consent of the governed." 
6.This refers to the Sugar Act of April 5, 1764, which entrusted military courts with enforcing all acts of the British Parliament pertaining to commerce and related revenues. In 1768, the British government, partly in an effort to stop smuggling, increased the number of these courts. All trials by such courts were conducted without juries. 
7. This charge quotes parliaments repeal of the stamp tax in 1766; although the tax was repealed, parliament asserted its authority to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
8. This charge points to the fact that King George had declared war on the Americans. It refers specifically to the burning by British troops of several American towns. The British considered that the Americans were open rebellion against their lawful rulers. But for the Americans, their "lawful rulers" were the very colonial legislatures and town meetings that were declared closed by British decrees and under attack by the British troops. 
10. This charge refers to a 1775 law authorizing the British navy to capture the ships and cargoes of other countries trading with the American colonies. In addition, the law authorized that anyone captured in the taking of these ships was to be forced to fight for the British.
11. This charge suggests that the British encouraged slave and Indian revolts against the colonists. For example, in 1775, Lord Dunmore of Virginia, swore to members of the Virginia House of Burgesses that if "any injury or insult were offered to himself" he would "declare Freedom to the Slaves, and reduce the City of Williamsburg to Ashes."

Q5: WHAT DID THE COLONISTS DO TO TRY TO AVOID DECLARING INDEPENDENCE?
- The Intolerable Acts were placed by the Colonists in 1774. Colonists also called the first continental congress to consider United American resistance to the British.
Q6: BASED ON THE LANGUAGE IN THIS SECTION, DID THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CREATE A NEW COUNTRY OR 13 NEW STATES?
- "That these United Colonies are, and of Right out to be Free and Independent states" Basically says that the Declaration of Independence created 13 new states.