What is the significance of the following quote? "...76 years ago, the people of this country were British subjects. The style and title of your "sovereign people" (in which you now glory) was not then born. ... your fathers...presumed to differ from the home government in respect to the wisdom and the justice of some of those burdens and restraints. They went so far ...as to pronounce the measures of government unjust, unreasonable, and oppressive...
a. To show that America was treated badly by England and the King and revolted in response.
b. To show that the country is only 76 years old.
c. This quote is significant because it allows the audience to see how and why American's decided to have a revolution and declare their independence.
d. None of the listed options are correct.

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