They adopted, or accepted the declaration on July 4, 1776. On July 8, a crowd surrounded outside of Pennsylvania State House, today called
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On July 2nd, the Second Continental Congress approved a movement for independence from Britain. This congress would later adopt the Declaration of Independence.
On July 4, 1776, John Hancock and Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress, signed the first copy. Later Congress directed the Declaration be engrossed and signed by all delegates. Most of the delgates whose names are on the Declaration signed it on August 2, 1776. A few delegates signed on later days.
July 4, 1776. The date that Congress approved of and adopted the written Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Many believe that it should be July 2, 1776, because that's when the Declaration of Independence was adopted by a voice vote.
The declaration was proclamed on July 4,
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.