Independence & Revolutionary War

Question 1

Declaration of Independence

1. WHAT is it?
2. WHO signed it first?
3. WHEN was it signed?
4. WHERE was it signed?
5. WHY was it created?
6. HOW did it affect history?

Answer 1

1. The document that established the independence of the new United States from Great Britain
2. John Hancock
3. 1776
4. Philadelphia (location of Second Continental Congress)
5. To explain the colonists’ rights to have a revolution
6. Its signing signaled the beginning of the Revolutionary War