deceleration
what rights did the declaration say were needed in a country?
literally just basic human ones
Who had the biggest signature?
John Hancock
What event happens to this day remembering the day this document was signed?
FOURTH OF JULY 🇺🇸🎆
what did this document signify?
the colonies separation from england
what year was the document written?
1776
What battles happened before this doc?
Lexington and Concord/Bunker Hill
What month was it signed? If possible, what was the full date?
August 2 1776
how many people total signed?
56
who was king of England at this time?
George III
How many days did it take?
17 - June 11-26, 1776
Why was the main author the main author? In other words why did the main author write most of the declaration?
Because the other authors realized he was better at writing so they asked him to write the whole thing
what did Britain compare the colonies to after the declaration was published?
an ungrateful child
list three of the major points it declared
three of these:
natural rights, equality, life liberty and happiness, popular sovereignty, right to revolution, or limited government
who were the five appointed authors?
Thomas Jefferson,John Adams,Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman
name some of the first steps colonists took against Britain before the declaration/war
The colonists decided to make militias and started supplying and storing up weapons and gunpowder