1. In your opinion, what made the Declaration of Independence successful and/or a failure?

I believe the declaration of independence was successful because many high classed important citizens of America agreed to it. If the declaration of independence was not signed by all those people there will be no such thing as the declaration of independence. Some of those people probably didn't care about what it meant so since everyone was signing it they followed along and signed it. All the men that wrote and signed the declaration of independence could have been executed for what they have been doing because they were still considered British citizens. Therefore they could have been hung for writing and signing it. What i believe the British wanted to come out from the declaration of independence was just freedom. Everyone wanted some kind of freedom no matter if there was a lot of freedom or just a tiny bit more than what they had before. So in my opinion i believe the declaration of independence was successful because part of where we live now probably wouldn't be here today.