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"The Resolution for Independence agreed to July 2, 1776" in the handwriting of Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress. Thomson's marks at the bottom right indicate the 12 colonies that voted for independence, while the Province of New York abstained. Richard Henry Lee proposed the resolution on June 7, 1776.
Hannah (Harrison) Thomson, Charles' second wife, by Joseph Wright (c.1785) "The Resolution for Independence agreed to July 2, 1776" (known as the Lee Resolution) in Thomson's handwriting. His marks at the bottom right indicate the 12 colonies that voted for independence and that the Province of New York abstained.
The Journals of the Continental Congress are official records from the first three representative bodies of the original United Colonies and ultimately the United States of America.
The body adopted the Lee Resolution for Independence on July 2, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence two days later, on July 4, 1776, proclaiming that the former colonies were now independent sovereign states. The Second Continental Congress served as the provisional government of the U.S. during most of the Revolutionary War.
Congress, therefore, voted on June 10 to postpone further discussion of Lee's resolution for three weeks. [22]: 42–43 [48] Until then, Congress decided that a committee should prepare a document announcing and explaining independence in case Lee's resolution was approved when it was brought up again in July.
The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress was a group of five members who drafted and presented to the full Congress in Pennsylvania State House what would become the United States Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. This Declaration committee operated from June 11, 1776, until July 5, 1776, the day on which the ...
The Model Treaty, or the Plan of 1776, was a template for commercial treaties that the United States planned to make with foreign powers during the American Revolution against Great Britain. [1] It was drafted by the Continental Congress to secure economic resources for the war effort, and to serve as an idealistic guide for future relations ...
The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, voted for the independence of the United Colonies by passing the Lee Resolution on July 2, 1776. [5] The Declaration of Independence , mainly written by Committee of Five member Thomas Jefferson , was proclaimed on July 4, the date on which the anniversary of independence is observed.