Okay, we have this take home essay assignment due tomorrow and there are three questions and we are supposed to choose one of them.

The first one is
Which of the following do you think was most responsible for the conflict between Britain and the American colonies?
a) the ineptness of parliamentary leadership
b) the colonists' militant anti-tax beliefs
c) the hard headedeness of King George III and his ministry
d) the differences in ideology between Americans and the mother country
e) the effectiveness of American propagandists like Sam Adams

Personally, I think it is D because don't all the other choices seem to fall into that category? If you could give me your opinion on what you think that'd be awesome.

The other two questions are
Thomas Jefferson and many other founding fathers were slaveowners. Why, then, did Jefferson state in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal?"
I don't know about that one. The only thing I can think of is that all men are equal when they are born and no man possesses any special traits at that time that make them more or less equal than another man. It's what they do in their lives and limitations caused by like their region they live in and things that show the differences?
and
What was the essential cause of the American victory in the War for Independence? Did the Americans (and French) really win the war on the battlefield or was it then lack of British political will that led to independence?
That one I really have no clue on.