TODAY IN HISTORY

|AMERICA DECLARES INDEPENDENCE|

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On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress of the American Colonies, which held in Philadelphia, unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, thus announcing the American Colonies’ separation from Great Britain.

The Declaration explained why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America.

“That all Men are created equal,” is an eloquent assertion of The United States’ Declaration of Independence.