Declaration of Independence

American founding document · July 4, 1776 · Philadelphia
Declaration of Independence was the 1776 document by which the thirteen American colonies formally announced their separation from Great Britain.
The kit
- Drafting — Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson as part of a five-man committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress.
- Content — Declaration of Independence begins "When in the course of human events" and lists twenty-seven grievances against King George III.
- Philosophy — Declaration of Independence asserts that "all men are created equal" and possess inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Adoption — Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776 after Caesar Rodney rode eighty miles through a storm to break a tie vote.
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The ladder · 15 clues
Two days before this document was signed, a similar document known as the Lee Resolution was passed by the same body.
Charles Thomson presided over the meeting that produced this document, and sent its final, handwritten copy to John Dunlap for printing.
This document, similar to the earlier Olive Branch Petition, contains a list of indictments against King George III.
This document ends with a mutual “pledge to each other” of “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor” after having condemned a ruler for “imposing Taxes on us without our Consent,” one of numerous “repeated injuries and usurpations” committed by the King.
The first 200 published copies of this document are called the “Dunlap broadsides.” A tie in votes on this document was broken thanks to a timely ride through a storm by Caesar Rodney.
Lewis Morris and Josiah Bartlett are among the 42 members of the central group in this painting, whose center depicts a five-man drafting committee.
One person in this painting appears to be, but is not actually, stepping on a shorter man's foot.
This document was drafted by Thomas Jefferson following an earlier resolution in the Second Continental Congress by Richard Henry Lee. It begins, “When in the course of human events…”
Thomas Je↵erson wrote the Preamble of this document which asserts inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
This statement was ratified on July 4th, 1776. name this document by which the fledgling United States declared its separation from Great Britain.
This document was approved by the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776. This document was written to inform the British that America was no longer one of its colonies.
Adopted by the 2nd Continental Congress, name this 1776 document that contains a list of 27 grievances against Britain.
The American Revolution was o cially started by this document signed on July 4th, 1776 in Philadelphia.
One of the truths listed as “self-evident” in this document is the notion that “all men are created equal”.
The Library of Congress holds the official copy of this document that Thomas Jefferson wrote.
10 more clues from the record
John Dickinson, the author of Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, refused to sign this document.
In this painting, Benjamin Harrison VI [[the sixth]] stood in for his father.
At the Seneca Falls convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton read a document that parodied this text ratified on July 4th. Answer some questions about feminist clapbacks, :The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions mirrored this text by beginning “When in the course of human events” and describing the “repeated injuries and usurpations” of man toward woman.
A band of prominent Wilmington white supremacists known as the “Secret Nine” issued a “White” one of these documents demanding the end of rule by “men of African origin.” A 1776 document with the same title stated “all men are created equal.”
A Danielle Allen book presents a reading of this document "in defense of equality." :Name this document. Allen contrasts this document's use of the phrase "we hold these truths to be self-evident" with the statement "I believe" in the Catholic Credo.
John Adams successfully lobbied to get Thomas Jefferson the role of writing this document, which pointedly did not include women in its proclamation that "all men are created equal."
The success of this work was assured after one figure dramatically arrived after riding eighty miles through a storm; that man was Caesar Rodney.
This work was first published on the so-called “Dunlap broadsides.” In a painting depicting it, one figure is possibly stepping on the foot of his political rival.
The Committee of Five was commissioned to write this document, and the longest portion of this document contains the personal pronoun “he,” referring to the sitting British king.
A paragraph from an early draft of this document condemning “a market where MEN should be bought and sold” was removed.

























