Unitit States Declaration o Unthirldom

Unitit States Declaration o Unthirldom
	1823 facsimile o the engrossed copy
Creatit	Juin–Julie 1776
Ratified	Julie 4, 1776
Location	Engrossed copy: National Archives; Rough draft: Librar o Congress
Author(s)	Thomas Jefferson et al. (Engrosser: Probably Timothy Matlack)
Signatories	56 delegates tae the Continental Congress
Purpose	Tae announce an explain separation frae Great Breetain

The Declaration o Unthirldom (Inglis: Declaration of Independence) is the statement adoptit bi the Seicont Continental Congress meetin at the Pennsylvanie State Hoose (Unthirldom Haw) in Philadelphia on Julie 4, 1776, which annoonced that the thirteen American colonies,^[2] then at war wi the Kinrick o Great Breetain, regairdit themsels as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, an na langer unner Breetish rule. Instead thay formed a new naition—the Unitit States o Americae. John Adams wis a leader in pushin for unthirldom, which wis passed on Julie 2 wi na opposin vote cast.

References

↑ Becker, Declaration of Independence, 5.
↑ The thirteen colonies war: Delaware, Pennsylvanie, New Jersey, Georgie, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Sooth Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginie, New York, North Carolina, an Rhode Island an Providence Plantations. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut an New Jersey war formed bi mergers o previous colonies.