On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation ...

In the new formed United States: On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, marking the formal assertion of independence from British rule. In Hawaiʻi ...

The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a cause of action and formally justify the Continental Congress’s July 2, 1776, decision to separate from Great Britain.

When the document was presented to the Continental Congress on July 1, 1776, both northern and southern slaveholding delegates objected to its inclusion, and it was removed. The only remaining ...

After the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration on July 4, 1776, the manuscript was sent to the Congress’ official printer, John Dunlap, who “evidently spent the evening … setting the ...

A copy of the Declaration of Independence known as the July 1776 Essex Broadside will go on the block later this month. Courtesy of Sotheby's Later this month, Sotheby’s will auction off a rare ...