The Declaration of Independence is widely celebrated by our Southern neighbors, but what are the events that culminated to its inception? This was the subject of my essay for Marc Carrier's class on America's Past Challenges and Current Crises. Story goes that American merchants were becoming frustrated with the mother country's imposed market regulations, raising taxes stakingly high and forbidding them to do business with any other country. These facts are all true, and Britain was very much at fault, but the events that took place behind the scenes shed a brighter light on why they…