The long term effects would be that people still quote the Declaration of Independence today and it has been an inspiration for many.
A short term effect could be that it motivated people at that time and made them realize what was happening.
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Some of the effects of the Declaration of Independence are the birth of a more democratic form of government. It also proposed the idea that people were free to live without threat of tyranny. This idea inspired the world, and still does to this day.
There were two Declarations of Independence. --- 1. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia called on the delegates of the Second Continental Congress to declare independence on June 7, 1776. They were a few votes short so they adjourned. Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson were assigned to drafting a document to support a declaration. On July 2nd, the delegates made their declaration for independence. --- 2. The document was finished and agreed to on July 4th. Most of the delegates didn't sign until August 2nd. --- One was the declaration - July 2nd --- The other was the paperwork - July 4th, August 2nd
John Dickinson, a delegate from Pennsylvania would not vote for or sign the Declaration of Independence. This is because he felt that the colonies would be better if they reconciled their grievances with Great Britain instead of declaring independence from it. Whether he fought in the Revolutionary War is not entirely clear. Some histories state he enlisted as a private and fought at the Battle of Brandywine. Others state he served briefly as a Colonel. And another has said that Thomas McKean, the governor of Delaware, also one of the signers of the Declaration appointed Dickinson as a Brigadier General. In either event his service, if any was short.
Although it was announced on July 4, 1776, the Declaration was first signed on August 2, 1776, with the last signature being added in late November. There is no single, perfect date for the adoption of the Declaration. The completed Declaration was accepted on July 2 and some delegates believed that would become an important day in history. On July 4, 1776, a scheduled meeting to discuss the Declaration was cut short and delegates agreed to the wording in principle before adjourning (some say the adjournment was due to nasty horseflies invading the hall). On July 8, it was published as a broadside (at first with only John Hancock's signature). By August, it was published again with most of the signatures. There is no one official version of the Declaration of Independence. Three slightly different versions were approved. The famous painting of the delegates all standing or seated in Independence Hall, waiting to sign the document, is pure fiction. There was never a time when all the signers were together in one place at one time. August 2, 1776