Declaration of Independence

 One of the most important events in the history of the United States of America is the Declaration of Independence. This event made or built the United States of America as it is today. The Declaration of Independence actually was created because the colonist wanted to be separated from Britain. I'll try to talk about this event a little more and explain something's. I hope you learn some interesting content from this post.

  The patriots did not like Britain and wanted to separate from them. The loyalist on the other hand were people who did not like patriot and disagreed with them. They would have serious problems because they were seriously different. The loyalist actually were afraid of the patriots. There was an event that occurred which was very important as well. There was a man who's name was Thomas Gage and this man wanted to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams. He also wanted to take away the weapons of them. This leads to skirmishes and this was when things change a lot.

 After this a book named "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine came out. This book was based on radical changes for the colonist but was actually everything they believed in. This book changed colonist minds a lot. In the book it talked about declaring Independence from Britain, make a republican state government, and union of the states. He would mention things in the book saying the king and the aristocrats were frauds and parasites, he wanted common people to elect their government, that they would have rewards as a republic, they would trade with anyone in the world, and they would inspire people from all around the world. 

  In Spring of 1776 people read this special book by Thomas Paine. The congress noticed this and named a committee declaring American Independence and a document had to explain the reasons. Later on July 2, 1776 congress voted that America was free but until July 4 they approved the Declaration of Independence. These ideas drew from Pains book and Thomas Jefferson wrote most of it. Most of the content were complains but declaration advanced that "all men are created equal." It drew on the enlightenment and said they were allowed to triad with any country.  I hope you learned some important events from this post.


Sources:

"American Colonies Declare Independence." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2014.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-colonies-declare-independence

"Declaration of Independence - Text Transcript." Declaration of Independence - Text Transcript. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2014.
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http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/