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Hello, we are Mark and Álvaro and we are going to talk about the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

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It was signed 9th July 1776.

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Back then, the country of Great Britain had 15 colonies in America.

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The 13 colonies were upset at Great Britain because they felt unfairly treated.

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So the 13 colonies went to war with Great Britain in a war called the Revolutionary War.

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A year to the war, they officially declared their freedom from Great Britain, so they

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got help from Thomas Jefferson.

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He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence and it was his job to put

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towards exactly why they were declaring independence.

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And that's what the Declaration of Independence does, explains why the 13 colonies were forming

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a new country, the United States of America.

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So for 17 days Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence with the help

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of a small committee, which included Benjamin Franklin and John Adams.

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They edited the document and made changes before it was given to the Second Continental

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Congress in Independence Hall and catched this on June 28, 1776.

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Thomas Jefferson and the committee shared the document with the Second Continental Congress

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in Independence Hall.

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An interesting fact, when they started it with the Second Continental Congress, it was

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an actually called Declaration of Independence.

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They originally called it a declaration by the representatives of the United States of

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America in General Congress Assignment, title that sounds like a title I'm glad it was

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shortened.

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Once they had the document, Congress made a change.

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They searched the document itself and the document became known as SIMF, the Declaration

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of Independence.

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Then the big day came on July 4th.

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Congress voted for the Declaration of Independence, the date was written on the Declaration of

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Independence and even though it was not signed by everyone right away, it became official

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that day.

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The first person to sign was a guy by the name of John Hancock in Masons.

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He was the president of the Second Continental Congress and he was famous for his signature

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on the Clarison of Independence because he wrote his signature with such big letters

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you can say his signature.

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Thanks for listening and I hope to see you again.