What is the date today?

What is the date tomorrow?

Why I am asking this?

Let’s See!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnjskJ7jaKk&feature=related

HowHow the United States

Declaration of Independence

was drafted and adopted?

ANY QUESTIONS?

The Process

• The Second Continental Congress• The Committee of Five• The Congress• Committee of the Whole• The Congress

BACKGROUND

England vs. Frence 1754–1763

Sugar Act• Parliaments places

a tax on sugar

Trade monopoly

• Colonies can export their products to only Great Britain

Stamp Act

• a tax on all printed material, such as newspapers and playing cards.

King George III of the United Kingdom

“No taxation Without

Representation.”

rule

Formal protest

Informal protest

Thomas Jefferson (right), Benjamin Franklin (left), and John Adams (center) meet at Jefferson's lodgings, on the corner of Seventh and High (Market) streets in Philadelphia, to review a draft of the Declaration of Independence

John Adams (Editor) had written to his wife Abigail

Declaration Of Independence, Constitution Of The United States Of America, Bill Of Rights And Constitutional

Amendments by Benjamin Franklin

• A British-made film about the War of Independence was never likely to succeed with American audiences, but the box-office failure of this expensive, high-profile film did not necessarily stem from nationalistic prejudice. Revolution is surprisingly even-handed. True, the American patriots are portrayed as excitable rabble, but the sadistic British are hardly the heroes of the film.

Questions:

How many stars are there on the US Flag?

What does it means?How many strips are there then?

What does it means?What do they do on that particular day?

Reference:• http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence#Text

• http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/declaration_of_independence.html

• http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/declaration-independence-expression-american-mind#sect-thebasics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence#Draft_and_adoption

• http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara2.html

• http://nopeter.org/forum/index.php?topic=1309.0

• http://www.americanwriters.org/works/declaration.asp

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnjskJ7jaKk&feature=related

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