B                                 Answers

Question Number One:

a. The declaration was adopted unanimously.

b. The meeting renounced all allegiance to the British government.

c. and declared the thirteen American colonies to be independent  

   under a new name.

Question Number Two?

a. It was the greatest defeat ever suffered by British imperial power.

b. and the birth of a New World power.

Question Number Three:
The thirteen American colonies.