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What is the Declaration of Independence?

"Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that woul...

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Main Author: Harris, Michael C., 1978- (Author)
Other Authors: Hoare, Jerry (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2016]
Series:What is--? (Penguin Workshop (Firm))
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United States. > Declaration of Independence > Juvenile nonfiction.
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783 > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is the Declaration of independence?
  • A battle for America
  • Taxes and more taxes
  • Blood in Boston
  • The Boston Tea Party
  • The First Continental Congress
  • The shot heard round the world
  • The king must go
  • Declaring freedom
  • The United States of America is born
  • What happened to the signers?
  • The declaration today
  • Timelines.

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