We declared our independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776.
The United States was not officially independent from Great Britain until the Treaty Of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783 after the American Revolution. We couldn't gain our Independence until after we won that war.
The correct answer for when we gained our independence is September 3, 1783.
WMDT should be more careful about how they EDUCATE the public.
This is because American parents anymore would rather take their children to useless places like Disney World than to historical sites like Valley Forge.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying to not ever take children to useless places but they should be exposed to historical sites because hands on learning sticks.
Correct 12:17.
ReplyDeleteI grew up with trips to Gettysburg, Bull Run, Plymouth, Jamestown, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Philadelphia, Boston...etc.
I only remember going to Kings Dominion and Busch Gardens once.
Maybe if we celebrated Independence Day on September 3 rd everyone would know the answer to this? Seems a bit of a trick question to me.
ReplyDeleteWe took field trips to historic places. Gettysburg, Philly, DC, Baltimore, Mt Vernon and a few I probably have forgotten. Do they still do that in schools now?
ReplyDeleteWe went to Williamsburg last year and visited all the historical places. We had fun. Of course we don't have any small children but there were children there and the places made it fun for the kids to learn about history. Most were not very interested in that they were ready to go to Busch Gardens.
Harper's Ferry was another destination for school trips if you lived in the Baltimore area. I remember also going to Valley Forge and the Liberty Bell in Girl Scouts in the mid 70's.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if they still do these kinds of school trips but I do hear of school trips to amusement parks.
1. The Declaration of Independence wasn’t signed on July 4, 1776.
ReplyDeleteOn July 1, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee’s motion for independence. The delegates then spent the next two days debating and revising the language of a statement drafted by Thomas Jefferson. On July 4, Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence, and as a result the date is celebrated as Independence Day. Nearly a month would go by, however, before the actual signing of the document took place. First, New York’s delegates didn’t officially give their support until July 9 because their home assembly hadn’t yet authorized them to vote in favor of independence. Next, it took two weeks for the Declaration to be “engrossed”—written on parchment in a clear hand. Most of the delegates signed on August 2, but several—Elbridge Gerry, Oliver Wolcott, Lewis Morris, Thomas McKean and Matthew Thornton—signed on a later date. (Two others, John Dickinson and Robert R. Livingston, never signed at all.) The signed parchment copy now resides at the National Archives in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom, alongside the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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ReplyDeleteWhat point are you trying to make with your copy and paste?
4:29, 3:08 was giving us a bit of history related to the topic, which some of us didn't know and others can always use a refresher.
ReplyDeleteYour failure to see the "point" is indicative of why the question was answered wrong by so many.