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The Declaration of Independence: Purposes and Influences

The Declaration of Independence: Purposes and Influences. By Holly, Evelyn, Richard and Luke. The Declaration of Independence. The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement that began being used by the Continental Congress on the 4 th July 1776.

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The Declaration of Independence: Purposes and Influences

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  1. The Declaration of Independence: Purposes and Influences By Holly, Evelyn, Richard and Luke

  2. The Declaration of Independence The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement that began being used by the Continental Congress on the 4th July 1776. It stated that the thirteen American colonies whose representatives had signed were as of then at war with Great Britain. It also stated that each of the states were now independent as oppose to a part of the British Empire.

  3. What it stood for?

  4. Influences???

  5. Virginia Declaration of Rights The Constitution of Virginia

  6. The first draft of the Declaration of Independence was written by:

  7. What caused the Declaration of Independence? ‘No Taxation Without Representation’

  8. The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress: October 19th 1765 “3d. That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted rights of Englishmen, that no taxes should be imposed on them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives.”

  9. The End And they all lived happily ever after.

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