On July 4, 1776, the SecondContinental Congressofficially adopted the Declaration of Independence. With it, theThirteen Coloniesput out into the world that they were no longer owned by England a year after the start of theAmerican Revolution. TheFounding Fathersactually voted for independence two d...
On July 4th, 1776, the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, which declared the thirteen American colonies as independent states and no longer under British rule. The Declaration of Independence was written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, who was just 33 years old at the time...
The nation was founded by thirteen colonies declaring their independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776 and ratifying the Articles of Confederation, on March 1, 1781 uniting the states under a weak federal government. It adopted the current constitution on September 17, 1787. From 1803 to 1...
But maybe it’s a good thing that someone’s around to occasionally remind us what this great stuff ‘might have’ (that lazy historian’s stand-by when facts are short) sounded like in the flesh. We get loads of ZZ Top – a band about whom I know almost nothing, apart from the ...
was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within the thirteen North American colonies. The war, which eventually widened far beyond British North America, resulted in the overthrow of British rule in the thirteen colonies and the establishment of the United States of America...
The Boston Tea Party How could tea be a threat to the liberties of the Thirteen Colonies? Were the Mohawk disguises really so good that even their mothers couldn't recognize them? Surely not.Read more. 4th July: Independence Day His Majesty's government does not like the idea of independenc...
The thirteen colonies included Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia. To this day, thirteen stripes still commemorate the original colonies. Instead of thirteen stars, today ...