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Declaration of Independence

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The Declaration of Independence

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::

 

"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.

 

 

 Trumbull's Declaration of Independence

 

 

 

 

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, w

 

 Signers of the Declaration of Independence

 

Delaware    George Read Caesar Rodney
  Thomas McKean  
 
Pennsylvania    George Clymer Benjamin Franklin
  Robert Morris John Morton
  Benjamin Rush George Ross
  James Smith James Wilson
  George Taylor  
 
Massachusetts    John Adams Samuel Adams
  John Hancock Robert Treat Paine
  Elbridge Gerry  
 
New Hampshire    Josiah Bartlett William Whipple
  Matthew Thornton  
 
Rhode Island    Stephen Hopkins William Ellery
 
New York    Lewis Morris Philip Livingston
  Francis Lewis William Floyd
 
Georgia    Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall
  George Walton  
 
Virginia    Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee
  Carter Braxton Benjamin Harrison
  Thomas Jefferson George Wythe
  Thomas Nelson, Jr.  
 
North Carolina    William Hooper John Penn
  Joseph Hewes  
 
South Carolina    Edward Rutledge Arthur Middleton
  Thomas Lynch, Jr. Thomas Heyward, Jr.
 
New Jersey    Abraham Clark John Hart
  Francis Hopkinson Richard Stockton
  John Witherspoon  
 
Connecticut    Samuel Huntington Roger Sherman
  William Williams Oliver Wolcott
 
Maryland    Charles Carroll Samuel Chase
  Thomas Stone William Paca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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