What were the complaints against the king of England in the Declaration of Independence?

In
answering this question, it's important to understand the importance of the Declaration of
Independence's overall rhetorical strategy. It was written primarily to persuade Americans who
might otherwise be skeptical at the very idea of independencethat this was the only way forward.
It was also written with the intent of persuading the rest of the world that the American
colonists had been unfairly treated at the hands of their colonial overlords and that this why
they had decided to bite the bullet and declare independence from Great Britain.

In general terms, the Declaration expresses the colonists' conviction that they'd been
pushed into a corner by the arrogance and intransigence of the British and therefore had no
alternative but to declare independence:

Such has been
the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to
alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a
history of repeated...