Declaration of Independence USE
Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia Consisting - Year ended in May 1775 , representing all the colonies rebelled against England, decided to break off a relationship with her and create the American army . It includes the previously created guerrilla detachments . The commander was appointed George Washington ( 1732-1799 ) . At its difficult and responsible post of Washington showed himself a skilful commander , determined to STI - fight until the liberation of the colonies rebel against the English oppression. July 4, 1776 Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. By this document, the rebellious colonies declared themselves free and independent states , united in the United States of America. July 4th is celebrated annually in the United States as Independence Day , although after the signing of the Declaration were five children long before the final victory of Americans in the war and seven years before the signing of the Treaty of Paris . The author of the Declaration of Independence was the youngest 33 -year-old Congressman Thomas Jefferson ( 1743-1826 ) - a prominent Democratic leader of the American Revolution , a student and follower of the French Enlightenment , whose advanced democratic ideas and were the basis of the Declaration of Independence . In line with these ideas Jefferson revised the draft Declaration paragraph providing that the abolition of slavery , but the rich plantation owners and tenants represented a majority in Congress , have made its exclusion from a final text of the Declaration. Thus, in a young, free country , even just to defend their non- dependence , slavery persisted . But in general, for the time, when most of the world state- podstvoval feudal system , with its caste inequality, political disenfranchisement and medium- nevekovoy inertia , the Declaration of Independence , proudly proclaimed the right of people to freedom of , was a pioneering instrument . This important document epoch was the reflection of