![]() ![]() The preamble of the declaration is the best-known part. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. The initial text says that a declaration of independence must be well-reasoned: They often celebrate with parades, fireworks, and songs. They celebrate this holiday to remember the day that the Declaration was approved, and the day that the United States of America officially became its own country. Every year on July 4, they have a holiday called Independence Day. The people of America know that the Declaration of Independence is very important. These things were what made America a free independent country. It also says that the government has to listen to its own people. It says that every person in this U.S has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration of Independence also talks about the simple ideas that the people who started the United States believed in. ![]() America won the war, and in 1783 Great Britain had to recognize the independence of the new country, the United States, at the Treaty of Paris. Great Britain and the people in America had already been fighting in a war called the American Revolution. When the King of Great Britain, King George III, and Parliament heard about the Declaration, they were angry. The Declaration of Independence had many different effects. One signer, Matthew Thornton, from the Province of New Hampshire, signed on November 4, 1776. ![]() Many of these signers were not there when the original Declaration was adopted on July 4. Many people signed a parchment paper copy of the Declaration on July 2. However, some people signed at different times. On July 19, the Declaration's title was changed from "A Declaration of the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled" to "the unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America." This meant that everyone in the Congress agreed on the Declaration. On July 15, the New York group agreed with the rest of the colonies' groups. (The Province of New York did not vote.) This version of the Declaration was signed only by the President of the Congress, John Hancock. On that day, twelve of the thirteen groups that represented the colonies approved and ordered the Declaration to be printed. However, the Continental Congress did not officially approve the Declaration until July 4. He says these included putting people in jail with no reason, making taxes that were too high, and not respecting people who lived in the colonies. He then lists specific bad things that the British government did to the colonies. This part of the Declaration is called the Preamble. In the Declaration, Jefferson starts by writing about people's rights, and what the government should and should not do. He bought him a few drinks and told him that he was more qualified to write it because he was a Virginian and he was simply a better writer. John Adams decided that Thomas Jefferson should write the document. ![]() The committee decided that one person would write the document, while the rest would give him advice on what to write. The Declaration of Independence Choosing a Writer Roger Sherman, from the Connecticut Colony.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. Jefferson drafted the Declaration on this portable lap desk, which he designed himself ![]()
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