West Los Angeles College The Declaration of Independence American History Paper
Question Description
Please keep in mind the instructions posted just prior Chapter 1 of the Henretta Discussion Forums — if in doubt as to what you should be doing here, refer back to them. Now — DISCUSS!
1. What was significant about the Declaration of Independence?
2. Why were the British so concerned with colonial controls in the 1760s?
3. What did you find interesting and/or significant about the Enlightenment?
4. What did you find interesting regarding immigration to the American colonies at this time?
5. Why did the English colonists need African slaves in the New World?
6. How did trans-Atlantic trade transform England, as well as Europe?
7. How did Africans in North America resist the institution of slavery?