PLEASE HELP THIS IS A USA TEST PREP Which is the BEST explanation for why men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin are known as the "Founding Fathers"?

A) They played a major role in uniting the southern slave-holding states and the northern free states into one nation.

B) They were political leaders sent to the colonies by the King of England with the goal of founding a new, independent nation.

C) They were the three military leaders most responsible for surrounding and capturing British troops during the Battle of Yorktown in 1781.

D) They served as leaders in the American Revolutionary War and helped create the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.