How Is The Declaration Of Independence A Turning Point

Throughout the history of the United States, there are many turning points, major historical events, which lead to important social, economic and political changes. The Declaration of Independence marks one of those turning points. The Declaration of Independence changed the course of the U.S remarkably and led to the independent of the U.S from England. It has a profound effect on today’s government but it affected the colonists in 1776 greatly. The Declaration of Independence influenced as whole and influenced as each individual part.
The Declaration of Independence as a whole was significance to the colonists living in America during 1776. The Declaration of Independence was an announcement to the British and the rest of the world that

One of the British wrongdoings against the colonists was that the Parliament instilled a numerous number of heavy taxes on the colonies after the Seven Years War. Those taxes were the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Townshend Acts and the Tea Act. These Acts, from the colonial standpoint, were to collect money for the treasury (Boyer et al, 141). Moreover, these taxed placed upon the colonies were an act of taxation without representation, which upset the colonists. “Jefferson argued that the English government had violated its contract with the colonists, there by giving them the right to replace it with a government of their own design.” A government with an emphasis on “equality of all individuals and their natural entitlement to justice, liberty, and self-fulfillment expressed republican’s deepest longing for a government that would rest on neither legal privilege nor exploitation of the majority by the few.” (Boyer et al, 158,

Jefferson stated: “...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”. This was a very bold statement to say in 1776. Jefferson stated that "all men" had the rights to Life, the rights to Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness, and that government exists to protect these rights of the people. Governments receive their power to rule only through agreement of the people. Jefferson presented a “quest for equality and personal independence that, for many Americans, transcended boundaries of class, race, or gender, and challenged the Revolutionary generation and all who later inherited the nation to bring this ideal closer to reality.” (Boyer et al, 159) The Declaration of Independence fought for equality-transcended boundaries of class, race and gender and challenged the following generations to bring this ideal becomes reality.This is very impactful since there are obvious inequalities among these