The Declaration of Independence

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  • Grades 3-6, History Unit: American HistoryTopic: Declaration of Independence
  • King George III was not a godly man. He did not want the early settlers to have the freedom they needed to settle in America. He taxed them until they almost had nothing.
  • The colonists cannot feel free to do as they would like! Tax them more!
  • Tax collectors were sent to collect more taxes. It was not a welcomed transaction, but the colonists payed anyway.
  • Father! Here comes the soldiers to collect our taxes!
  • The early settlers were concerned and afraid of what else King George III might do. There had to be a solution.
  • Thomas Jefferson wrote a document called the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin and John Adam's edited it.
  • I think that's excellent! Let's just change a couple of things here...
  • What do you think about this? The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America....
  • The final draft of the Declaration of Independence was written and publicly read on the steps of the State House on July 4, 1776.
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • It was signed on August 2, 1776 and rewritten on parchment. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.