Why was the Declaration of Independence written?

For your Week 2 Paper you will be required to conduct research on the following topic:

Why was the Declaration of Independence written?
HIS 121 Weekly Paper Instructions

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The Weekly Paper is to be a minimum of 3 complete pages in length. Going over the minimum page length requirement is acceptable; however, I am not looking for a 6+ page Weekly Paper! Also, you must demonstrate knowledge of how to conduct research. This means you are required to find and use a minimum of 3 scholarly sources (e.g. GMC Textbook, GMC Library, and Google Scholar).

All papers are to have an APA title page and an APA reference page. The APA title page and APA reference page do NOT count towards the minimum page requirement! Your body of work needs to be a minimum of 3 complete pages! Also, you do not need to put your footnotes at the bottom of each page throughout the body of the paper. Instead, you may do the following for this paper:

“The War of 1812 was started by America.” (Kucsan, 2009) or (the authors last name). Now if you are using more than one article by the same author then you need to put in the title of the article…such as (Kucsan, 2009, Consequences of the War of 1812). If you are using 2 different works with authors of the same last name then do the following; (Kucsan, P, 2009) Just put in the first initial.

General APA Formatting Guidelines:

Font Type: Times New Roman
Font Size: 12 point
Margins: 1 inch on all sides
Spacing: Double-spacing
Justification: Left
Paragraph Indentation: Use the Tab key to indent all paragraphs one half-inch from the left margin
View APA Formatting Guidelines – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
View APA In-Text Citation Rules – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/
View information on APA Footnotes and Endnotes – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/04/
View information on the APA Reference List – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/
View a Sample APA Paper – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090212013008_560.pdf

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