On July 2nd, the Second Continental Congress approved a movement for independence from Britain. This congress would later adopt the Declaration of Independence.
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The Declaration of Independence was published in July but not voted on or approved until October 1776.
The resolution to become independent was officially adopted on July 2, 1776. It was on July 4th that congress adopted the actual Declaration of Independence.
According to the National Archives, the Continental Congress voted for July 2 to be celebrated as Independence Day. However, we have never used that day but instead have always celebrated on July 4.
Yes. It was that day in which , in my opinion, the greatest country of all, The United States of America, declared its independence from Great Britain. Thus Sparking the American Revolutionary War (which had begun, but not fully). Which lasted from Dawn of April 19, 1775, to 1783.
1776 was the year we declared independence
By The Continental Congress On July 4, 1776.