a return to fedualism in europe
In the beginning of the war, colonists were upset that they were being taxed from the British, for a war they had nothing to do with. Many of the colonists rebeled and they wanted to be independent. So all and all. They fought to form a new nation because they didn't want to be under British rule; a country 3,000 miles away.
Governments exist only by the consent of the people.
Each new state created from the territory could determine its own level of religious freedom.
SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE OF THE STATES! this is correct from apex