In February of 1775, King George III spoke before Parliament and said that America was in a "state of rebellion." This led to several states declaring their own independent resolutions and dissolving their association with Great Britain. One of these declarations was the Mecklenburg resolutions, created by the citizens of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. Historian Sydney George Fisher writes, "That declaration of rebellion, said the Mecklenburg resolutions, necessarily annulled all British laws in America and suspended for the

King George III began his reign in 1760, and had only a few years to help impose many new laws and tariffs on the Americans, so he was new in their minds and a handy scapegoat. It is not surprising that he was mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, because the founding fathers wrote that document to declare our independence but also to incite Americans to rise up against Great Britain. Americans needed a "villain" to blame their troubles on, and King George was handy, well known, and helpful in starting a Revolution.

present all civil government derived from Great Britain" (Fisher 324). While the Mecklenburg declaration had little impact on the rest of the war, it shows the sentiment of the people and their reaction to what they saw as tyranny by King George III and Parliament.

King George may have been many things, from illiterate to perhaps even mad, but he did not cause the American Revolution alone. Parliament had a very big hand in creating dissent, and King George and British policies just helped things along. The Declaration of Independence for its' time was an inflammatory document, and the authors needed a real "villain" to make Americans feel more justified in the upcoming war. King George had called Americans rebels just a few months before the document was written, and so, he was a good and timely target. The Declaration of Independence was not a perfect document, and the Revolutionary War was not a perfect revolt. There were many Americans who still admired their King and did not want to break wit

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