John Hancock was first to sign Declaration of Independence, the first governor of MA and president of the Second Continental ...

South Carolina originally sent five delegates to the Second Continental Congress but only one, Edward Rutledge, remained to ...

Student-teacher pairs from 26 U.S. states and territories began the Young People’s Continental Congress in Philadelphia, ...

Adams, Jefferson and other Founding Fathers enjoyed wild game and seasonal produce in Philadelphia's taverns during the Continental Congress, where food became part of politics.

It will take $31.5 billion to build a brand-new air traffic control system for the country, Department of Transportation ...

Before there was a nation, there was the Army. The United States Army began on June 14, 1775, as the Continental Congress ...

The U.S. Army hit an at-sea target with a Standard Missile 6 fired from its Typhon missile system as part of the Talisman ...

September 5: First Continental Congress established. September 9: Suffolk Resolves. October 14: Declaration and Resolves of First Continental Congress. October 20: Articles of Association.

Perhaps no publication contributed more to the Colonials' drive for independence from Great Britain than Thomas Paine's ...

The Declaration of Independence was originally drafted by former US President Thomas Jefferson in consultation with committee members such as John Adams.

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