America has been described as a “melting pot of people from different places and cultures-but is that description accurate? What is the American Identity? Does
American identity represent a “melting” or merging of cultures? Or is it more like a
salad in which the separate ingredients are still visible?

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt