During the american revolution, the colonies chose to be governed by

By themselves, is the right answer.

Explanation:

The 13 colonies proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and the refusal of the colonial metropolis to loose its posessions and taxes coming from the colonial economy, and to accept their own self-rule led to war, the Revolutionary War.

abraham lincoln

explanation:

abraham lincoln rejected the final compromise effort to stop the secession movement because it disparaged the gains made by the 1860 election.

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.