The Declaration of Independence listed complaints about social and economic abuses on the colonies.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. It listed grievances against the King but not about abuses
• D. It listed only political grievances

Answer: (C)

The Declaration presents a long list of grievances directed at King George III to justify independence, and many of these grievances describe economic and social harms as a result of royal policies, not just abstract political complaints. It condemns taxes without consent, trade restrictions, the maintenance of standing armies in peacetime, and other acts that affected daily life and the colonial economy, along with political abuses like dissolving colonial legislatures and suspending rights. So the statement is true: it lists social and economic abuses as part of its broader set of grievances. The idea that it only listed political issues is not accurate.