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The Liberian government was constantly dependent on foreign loans at high rates of exchange, which endangered the country's independence. [ 37 ] In 1926, Firestone , an American rubber company, started the world's largest rubber plantation in Liberia.
The Liberian Declaration of Independence is a document adopted by the Liberian Constitutional Convention on 26 July 1847, to announce that the Commonwealth of Liberia, a colony founded and controlled by the private American Colonization Society, was an independent state known as the Republic of Liberia.
Liberian cultural dances are showcased during a performance in Pennsylvania dedicated to Liberian Independence Day. [19] 26 July is now marked as independence day. [20] In America, Liberians utilize this date as the evolution of their relationship between the United States and Liberia. [20] Celebrations usually involve a music festival. [21]
Liberian and United States relationships became strained between 1971 and 1980 due to Liberian president William Tolbert's establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. [10] In 1978, United States president Jimmy Carter made the first official presidential visit to Liberia. [9]
July 5 – The constitutional convention, which would produce the 1847 Liberian constitution as well as the Liberian Declaration of Independence, first convenes. [1] July 26 – The Liberian Declaration of Independence is approved, founding the Republic of Liberia as an independent nation. [2]
Liberia, officially the Colony of Liberia, later the Commonwealth of Liberia, was a private colony of the American Colonization Society between 1821, before becoming the self-proclaimed independent nation of the Republic of Liberia, after declaring independence on July 26 of 1847, but was not recognized by the United States until September 23, 1862
The new Congress adopted "Rules and Regulations" on April 15, 1776, which can be considered the Constitution of 1776. (Along with the other American colonies, Georgia declared independence in 1776 when its delegates approved and signed the joint Declaration of Independence.) With that declaration, Georgia ceased to be a colony.
The oldest counties are Grand Bassa and Montserrado, both founded in 1839 prior to Liberian independence. Gbarpolu is the newest county, created in 2001. Nimba is the largest of the counties in size at 11,551 km 2 (4,460 sq mi), while Montserrado is the smallest at 737.069 sq mi (1,909.00 km 2). [95]