{"id":26683,"date":"2018-07-02T16:53:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T21:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?p=26683"},"modified":"2018-07-02T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:21:27","slug":"declaration-of-independence-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/declaration-of-independence-history\/26683\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Declaration of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/declaration-of-independence-history-.jpg\" alt=\"declaration of independence\" width=\"800\" height=\"474\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/declaration-of-independence-history-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/declaration-of-independence-history--600x356.jpg 600w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/declaration-of-independence-history--300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/declaration-of-independence-history--768x455.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Richard Henry Lee of Virginia ~ June 7, 1776<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These words of determined rebellion were the impetus for the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. Between June 7th and July 1st, a debate<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in our Continental Congress ensued and a committee was appointed to present our case for independence to the world. Members of the Committee included John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Robert R. Livingston of New York and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Ultimately, the task of drafting the actual document rested with Thomas Jefferson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Continental Congress reconvened on July 1st to consider the Lee resolution. The next day, a vote for independence was affirmed by 12 of the 13 colonies and adopted. Revisions were required and the document was amended with minor changes, leaving the original spirit of the document intact. Late in the afternoon on July 4th, the declaration was adopted by a majority in the Congress. History tells us that John Hancock signed his name to the document with great flourish to ensure that King George could read it without his spectacles. The following day, copies of the Declaration of Independence were distributed, and on July 6th, <i>The Pennsylvania Evening Post<\/i> became the first newspaper to print the extraordinary document. The Declaration of Independence has since become our nation&#8217;s most cherished symbol of liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For 15 or 20 years after the Declaration was written, people didn&#8217;t celebrate it much. By the 1790s, a time of bitter partisan conflicts, the Declaration had become controversial. After the War of 1812, the Federalist party began to come apart and the new parties of the 1820s and 1830s all considered themselves inheritors of Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans. 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