When the colonist could no longer stand the tyranny of King Georgia and great britain, they wrote a formal document, the , to express their desire to break free a begin a new country Please spell this correctly, using capital letters!

map scale refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. for example, on a 1: 100000 scale map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”