Made by a printer in New Hampshire, this 1776 broadside edition was created to disseminate America's founding document to the ...
The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a cause of action and formally justify the Continental Congress’s July 2, 1776, decision to separate from Great Britain.
The historical moment happened on Jan. 14, 1784, when the Continental Congress ratified ... famously adopted on July 4, 1776, but fighting continued between the Americans and British for several ...
The Americans had yet to declare independence, but revolution was brewing. The letter, addressed to “The Inhabitants of the ...
Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776. Related: The History of the Fourth of July ...
At the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, actors portraying Ross are busily sewing bedclothes for a doll-sized version of ...
It was adopted by Virginia as the state motto in 1776, the year the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, and is said to have been shouted out by John Wilkes Booth when he ...
Mike Bohacek, R-Michiana Shores. The Declaration of Independence was adopted July 4, 1776, by delegates to the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia. The document formally explains ...