In the documents from pages 47-69, from the “Eyewitness to America” book, the documents are about the Thirteen colonies gaining independence. While in each document the reasons for why each group fights for the independence of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain are different, they all lead to everyone in the Thirteen colonies beginning to fight the British for their freedom from acts that the English king is imposing on them from 3,000 miles away. These documents show that everyone in the Thirteen Colonies joined together to achieve the same goal, that goal being, gaining independence from Britain. The juxtaposition of the documents that show the Thirteen colonies fighting for certain rights in each document, demonstrates their desire
