Declaration Of Independance Document Analysis

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, 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 quote was written by Thomas Jefferson and played a major part in the Declaration of Independance. The Declaration of Independance was a document that explained to the world why Great Britain's thirteen American colonies declared themselves to be "free and independent states". The document also consisted of the five main ideals Americans were to be guided or inspired by: equality, rights, liberty, opportunity,
“At first, some landowners met their labor needs through contracts with indentured servants. At the end of their contract, they were released and given a payment known as "freedom dues" (Ch. 4 Section 2). Indentured servants were settlers who voluntarily gave up their freedom for five to seven years in exchange for passage to America. These servants would work for other people on farms or plantations for their freedom, instead of pay these people had to work to gain their liberty, it was not just given to them like it is stated in the Declaration of Independance. Another reason Americans have not lived up to the ideal of liberty was because of the treatment of the Jews by the Nazi’s during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of Jews and other minority groups by the Nazis. “ Gradually, the Nazis decided on what they called the “final solution.” As part of this plan, they would systematically exterminate the Jews. Each death camp could kill tens of thousands of people each month and unlike regular concentration camps, these death camps were equipped with gas chambers” (Ch. 36 Section 2). Hitler had stripped all Jews of their civil rights, had them beaten or killed, and sent them to concentration camps. At these concentration camps, the Jews were treated inhumanely. Nazi leaders would lock them in poisonous gas chambers and if you were a child, a pregnant women, the elderly or sick you were killed right after arrival. Studies show that the Nazis killed some 6 million Jews, or about 40 percent of the world’s Jewish population. Clearly the Jews freedoms and liberties were stripped from them, by Hitler himself, and they had no other choice but to do as they were told to try and stay alive or if not they knew they would be killed. Americans did nothing to help out the Jews from the terrible tortures they faced. Instead they chose to ignore it or