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Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is an alleged document that, if proven to exist, would predate the 1776 Declaration of Independence in its...

Rev War | Article

The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence is one of the founding and most fundamental documents of the United States. On July 4, 1776, during the American...

How We Became America: The Untold History

Rev War | Video

The Declaration of Independence

VIDEO | The Declaration of Independence was the first-ever document to cement equality into the founding principles of a nation, though it was by no...

Rev War | Primary Source

Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was a document that was published in 1819 that was allegedly created and signed on May 20, 1775 just one...

Rev War | Primary Source

The Declaration of Independence

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to...

Rev War | Video

The Declaration of Independence

VIDEO | Join Jim Percoco as he comes to you from Independence Hall in Philadelphia to detail the creation of America's founding document, which is...

Rev War | Primary Source

Declaration of Independence Primary Source Questions

Read the Declaration of Independence in its entirety here. What does the Declaration say is the purpose of a government? Based on how it is used, what...

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

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Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Primary Source Questions

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Charlotte, North Carolina May 20, 1775 Resolved, That whoever directly or indirectly abetted, or in any...

Rev War | Article

The Path to the Declaration

The path to independence started with the Continental Congress and involved several years of debate before the Declaration of Independence was drafted...

Washington standing among African-American field workers harvesting grain; Mount Vernon in the background.

Rev War | Article

The Founding Fathers Views of Slavery

The institution of slavery – protected by law in all 13 American colonies when they declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776 – proved to...

Rev War | Biography

George Wythe

American statesman and revolutionary George Wythe was born in 1726 on his family's plantation in Chesterville near present day Hampton, Virginia. Both...