Nov 15, 2009

Salem on History | Declaration of Independence

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Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
Categories: Government and Politics, Philosophy, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
Subcategories: American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Wars, Battles, Democracy
Curriculum: American Revolutionary History (1776-1788)
Geographical Location: Pennsylvania
Date: July 4, 1776

Article abstract: The document that marked the beginning of the United States of America, embodying the philosophies of the republic.

Summary of Event

The Declaration of Independence was the culmination of a ten-year drift by the colonies from active participants in the British Empire to rebellious advocates of a total break with the mother country. This decade of accelerating estrangement was fueled by fundamental disagreement over the Proclamation Line of 1763, the Sugar Act and Currency Act (1764), the Stamp Act and Quartering Act (1765), the 1766...

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Salem on History | Declaration of Independence

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Summary of Event

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