

Declaration Of Independance {{Written By Tj}}
Virginia Hoke claims this one!
Tj was the Main Writer:: Thomas Jefferson

The Deleration was part of the Second Contintal Congress, on July 4th 1776.
It's main point was to declare the thirteen states free from Britian::
it's "revolutionary" ideas were inspired by the Enlightened thinkers of the time - specifically Locke
"are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to Great Britain"
It was also declared the the United States of America making a country.

Time Line of the Events
1776 |
June 7 |
Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, receives Richard Henry Lee's resolution urging Congress to declare independence. |
June 11 |
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston appointed to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. American army retreats to Lake Champlain from Canada. |
June 12-27 |
Jefferson, at the request of the committee, drafts a declaration, of which only a fragment exists. Jefferson's clean, or "fair" copy, the "original Rough draught," is reviewed by the committee. Both documents are in the manuscript collections of the Library of Congress. |
June 28 |
A fair copy of the committee draft of the Declaration of Independence is read in Congress. |
July 1-4 |
Congress debates and revises the Declaration of Independence. |
July 2 |
Congress declares independence as the British fleet and army arrive at New York. |
July 4 |
Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence in the morning of a bright, sunny, but cool Philadelphia day. John Dunlap prints the Declaration of Independence. These prints are now called "Dunlap Broadsides." Twenty-four copies are known to exist, two of which are in the Library of Congress. One of these was Washington's personal copy. |
July 5 |
John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, dispatches the first of Dunlap's broadsides of the Declaration of Independence to the legislatures of New Jersey and Delaware. |
July 6 |
Pennsylvania Evening Post of July 6 prints the first newspaper rendition of the Declaration of Independence. |
July 8 |
The first public reading of the Declaration is in Philadelphia. |
July 9 |
Washington orders that the Declaration of Independence be read before the American army in New York |
July 19 |
Congress orders the Declaration of Independence engrossed (officially inscribed) and signed by members. |
August 2 |
Delegates begin to sign engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence. A large British reinforcement arrives at New York after being repelled at Charleston, S.C. |
1777 |
January 18 |
Congress, now sitting in Baltimore, Maryland, orders that signed copies of the Declaration of Independence printed by Mary Katherine Goddard of Baltimore be sent to the states. |
An engrossed copy of the declaration was signed by the delegates on August 2 and is now on display in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
The Declaration is considered to be the founding document of the United States of America,

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