The American Declaration of Independence of July 4th, 1776

Robert Hall shows the importance of the historical background to understanding the most important documents in American history.

"We think that these truths are self-evident: People are equal in life and are given specific nontransferable rights by the Creator, including those of life, freedom, happiness Including pursuit, the "Declaration of the Independence of America", but the whole article is much more complicated than what is implied by this liberal speech.

Like many innovative documents in the history of the government, the "declaration" is firmly rooted in a very specific historical context. The universal human rights statement is only 20% of the 1,340 word document. More than 60% of them are a list of frustrations of American settlers against George III and the British government.

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July 4: Independence Day (also known as July 4), the US Federal Holiday has adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The first 13 colonies declared independence from the UK and established a status as a new country known as the United States. July 14th: French Holidays, celebrating the prisons of political prisoners and Bastille, Paris Fortress who are dissatisfied with French aristocracy. The storm that happened at Bastille on July 14, 1789 was regarded as a turning point in the French Revolution. Celebration will be held in France

Today, millions of Americans are celebrating the American Independence Day on July 4. This day is celebrating the day the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776. The event was held in colonies, but what is the opinion of the UK regarding this declaration? We will learn about British media response to the American Independence Declaration through the British newspaper archive. In the Declaration of Independence, since the war between Lexington and Concorde in April 1775, the United States and Britain were in a state of war. Many reports on American insurgents and American daily news and stories have been written and discussed in British newspapers. Movement of militia and the British army. Six months before the Declaration of Independence, colonists and Englishmen were reading common sense of Thomas Payne. A booklet explaining the natural rights of colonists declaring independence