Livingston, from the Province of New York Thomas Jefferson, from the Virginia Colony.Benjamin Franklin, from the Province of Pennsylvania.John Adams, from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.During a meeting of the Second Continental Congress, on June 11, 1776, they chose five people to write a document that would become the Declaration of Independence. They met in the American city of Philadelphia. Responding to actions taken by Great Britain, including the Intolerable Acts, the different colonies formed a Continental Congress to make decisions for all of the colonies.
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Jefferson drafted the Declaration on this portable lap desk, which he designed himself The American people wanted to be treated like British citizens. Many Americans did not like paying taxes to Great Britain when they did not have anyone to speak for them in Parliament.
"Plundered our seas." meant that the founding Fathers blamed the British for the American Revolution.ĭuring this time, many American people were angry at Great Britain. This means that the King and Parliament of Great Britain ruled the Colonies. The individual states were colonies of the British Empire. In the conclusion of the Declaration of Independence a quote was: "with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."īefore the Declaration īefore 1776, the United States of America was not a country. Instead, the thirteen British colonies came together to become a union of free and independent states. It says that the Americans were no longer under British rule. United States Declaration of Independence is an important document in the history of the United States of America. To announce and explain separation from Great Britain
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