What is the 4th of July? Declaration of Independence?
Are you ready for the family barbecue followed by fireworks? How did all this start. Let’s go back to the beginning.
Think back in 1776 when the original thirteen colonies were surrounded by the British the Red Coats. Of course, you would fight to get the Red Coats off of your land and out of your life.
King George III must have been on drugs to think that the people of the colonies would subject themselves to people from over the ocean with strange clothing and customs trying to control the colonies.
The people of that era did a great job fighting these Red Coats with everything they had to save themselves and their families.
Wouldn’t you have. If they wouldn’t have done that we might still be under British rule, there might never have been individual states and we wouldn’t have had the Declaration of Independence.
We wanted the Red Coats off our land and we got them running back to England with their tails between their legs.
Congress had declared Independence Day on July 2 but it became official on July 4th a time for family to get together and veg out.
The United States Declaration of Independence is the adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
Originally published: July 4, 1776
Created: June–July 1776
Signatories: 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress
and Mary Katherine Goddard — At the bottom of the document is written “Baltimore, in Maryland: Printed by Mary Katherine Goddard.” Goddard, who was working as printer at the time, voluntarily inscribed her full name on the document.
Location: Engrossed copy: National Archives Building; Rough draft: Library of Congress
Purpose: To announce and explain separation from Great Britain
Four parts
There are four parts to the Declaration of Independence which include the:
- Preamble
- A Declaration of Rights
- A Bill of Indictment
- A Statement of Independence.
Copyright Linda Meckler 2021