The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, the main audience of this document are the Colonist, King of England and foreign nations. The purpose of this document is to explain to foreign nations why the colonies separate themselves from Great Britain, the reason was because they were being taxed without representation by the British government. The colonist got very angry, because they didn’t like that the king was just throwing out taxes without their consent. So they started protesting about these taxes. One of these protests was the Boston Tea Party this was basically when some of the colonist tried dressing up like Indians, sneaking onto ships in the harbor, and dumping imported tea into the
