From who did America get freedom?

Answer 1

The Colonists of the 13 British Colonies in America felt their rights as British subjects were being violated because the British brought over Royal Governors who answered to the King and not to the colonists living in those colonies. The colonists objected to being taxed with having representation, that started discontent with English rule when they saw time and again that their Governors answered to the King and not to them, and troops were quartered among them, basically creating an occupation which they felt violated their rights as subjects of the Britain. The American colonists fought the American Revolution to get independence from Britain, but they felt that their rights and freedom were natural rights and came from God.

Recall that in the Declaration of Independence it says:

We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Note that they said that men are created and endowed by their Creator. These ideas of natural rights came from a political philosophy by the name of Natural Law Theory. Among those who wrote of Natural Law Theory were john Locke, Thomas Hobbes and other English philosophers. I hope this answers your question.