Name: 《獨立宣言》 (The Declaration of Independence)
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the delegates to the Second Continental Congress

approved the Declaration of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident,"

The Declaration of Independence was really the

making an appeal to the rest of the world,

to say that their time as a colony of the United Kingdom

The principle author of the Declaration of Independence

I tried to find a picture of him as a young man.

he was about 10 years younger than you even see him here.

Where did young Thomas Jefferson get all of the ideas

that he expressed in the Declaration of Independence,

and effects of the Declaration of Independence.

We often think that the Revolutionary War started

In fact, parts of the Revolutionary War had been going on

It was in 1765, more than a decade earlier,

that some of the first unrest over taxation,

when a group of colonists dumped over 300 crates of tea

In 1775, over a year before the Declaration of Independence,

of the Revolutionary War had taken place outside Boston,

By the time the delegates had met in Philadelphia,

the Revolutionary War had been a shooting war

the delegates finally made the Declaration of Independence?

The primary reason that they did it at this time,

and they were particularly eager to get the assistance

which had been a long time enemy of the United Kingdom,

and the delegates really knew that the new

United States of America would have no hope of winning

a war against a massive imperial power like Great Britain,

without the help of another world power, such as France.

In a way, what Jefferson was doing in the

wasn't so much declaring, but rather explaining

why the states were declaring themselves independent,

with the hope that they could get the sympathy

and the help of the international community.

Let's read some of the Declaration of Independence.

I know that this is a gigantic block of text here,

"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen"

You'll notice here that he specifically points out

This is important, because it gives you a sense that

they aren't really thinking of the individual former

colonies, now states, as one larger country,

"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary"

"for one people to dissolve the political bands"

"and to assume among the powers of the Earth,"

"A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires"

"that they should declare the causes which impel them"

saying, we feel it necessary to explain why we want to

"We hold these truths to be self-evident."

"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive"

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《獨立宣言》 (The Declaration of Independence)

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