A purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to explain the problems the colonists had with British rule
the reasons colonists formed the Continental Congress
why some colonists refused to boycott British goods
why the colonies had the Boston Tea Party

the problems the colonists had with British rule

Explanation:

the answer is a. since they were a huge producer of cotton and wanted the most money for it.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion