While the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the United States' rebellious ...

There were 56 signers to the Declaration ... Only a handful signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; they include: Benjamin Franklin, George Read, Roger Sherman, Robert ...

Among George's crimes ... Congress refrained from publishing the Declaration of Independence with a list of the signers until six months later when America won its first great victory in the ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence ... He lost and became Vice-president to George ...