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In 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2 and adopted the Declaration of Independence two days later, July 4.
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Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee tabled a resolution before the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independent ; at the same time he also urged Congress to resolve “ to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances ” and to prepare a plan of confederation for the newly-independent states.
On June 12, 1776, a day after appointing a committee to prepare a draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress resolved to appoint a committee of 13 to prepare a draft of a constitution for a union of the states.
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
Gerry was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress from February 1776 to 1780.
* Enterprise ( 1776 ), a ship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolution
He resigned his crown-appointed positions in 1776 and, on June 22, went on to represent New Jersey in the Second Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence.
Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.
Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.
* 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the " Lee Resolution " to the Continental Congress.
* 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
* 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
* 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
* 1776 – George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York for the first time.
* 1776 – American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
In 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution.
In Lee's Resolution on the 7th of June 1776 during the Second Continental Congress, Lee put forth the motion to the Continental Congress to declare Independence from Great Britain, which read ( in part ):
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
* 1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
Ezra Lee, Continental Army ) tried and failed to sink the British warship HMS Eagle, flagship of the blockaders in New York harbor on September 7, 1776.
Jefferson had also served on the committee appointed to draw up the rules of order for the Continental Congress in 1776.
* Tory Act University of Tulsa ; Order of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia, 2 January 1776
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The committee met repeatedly, and chairman John Dickinson presented their results to the Congress on July 12, 1776.
* 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
He departed the Congress on November 30, 1776 to serve on the Navy Board at Philadelphia.
In June 1776, Congress ' first attempt at running the war effort was established with the committee known as " Board of War and Ordnance ", succeeded by the Board of War in July 1777, a committee which eventually included members of the military.
When Congress began considering a resolution of independence in June 1776, Adams ensured that Jefferson was appointed to the five-man committee to write a declaration in support of the resolution.
" A final draft was presented to the Congress on June 28, 1776.
On July 4, 1776, the Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence and the delegates signed the document.
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On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, still meeting in Philadelphia, voted unanimously for the independence " of the thirteen United States of America.
He voted in favor of the Declaration of Independence, adopted by Congress on July 2, 1776, two days before the " fair copy ," dated July 4, 1776, was presented to the Congress.
On May 15, 1776 he voted in favor of drafting a declaration of independence, in spite of restrictions from the Maryland convention that prevented their delegates from supporting it.
He later emigrated and became a member of the US congress and in July 1776 he voted for the Resolution for Independence.
North Carolina voted to declare independence from the British on April 12, 1776, shortly after the victory at Moore's Creek, which is located in the Wilmington area near Currie in Pender County in southeastern North Carolina.
During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia declaring the United States independent from Great Britain.
As a member of the Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776, he voted against the Declaration of Independence.
When the South Carolina General Assembly unanimously voted for union with Georgia in 1776, Drayton became the chief champion of the proposal.
On June 29, 1776, Virginians declared their independence from Great Britain and wrote the state's first constitution, thereby creating an independent government four days before Congress voted for the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4.
When in 1776 the British King George III asked the Dutch whether he could borrow the Scotch Brigade ( a unit of mercenaries in Dutch service ) to be deployed in the war with the American Republic, he voted against.
He was one of three Maryland delegates to the Congress who voted in July 1776, to declare America's independence from Great Britain and to approve the Declaration of Independence.
On May 15, 1776 the Virginia General Assembly voted unanimously for independence and to have a declaration of rights drawn up.
On January 5, 1776, the Congress of New Hampshire voted in Exeter to establish a civil government, and specified the manner and form that government would have.
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