Declaration of Independance
How our Country gained its Freedom
Declaration of Independence
If the colonists hadn't risked everything to make this declaration, Americans might still have a queen or king.
THE THREE MAIN PEOPLE WHO SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDANCE
John Hancock
A signature. Derives from John Hancock signature, which was written in large letters, on the Declaration of Independence.
John Adams
A political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; one of the Founding Fathers. Adams was a signer of the Declaration of Independence Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was principal author of the Declaration of Independence
King George the Third
England’s longest-ruling monarch before Queen Victoria, King George III (1738-1820) ascended the British throne in 1760. During his 59-year reign, he pushed through a British victory in the Seven Years’ War, led England’s successful resistance to Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and presided over the loss of the American Revolution. After suffering intermittent bouts of acute mental illness, he spent his last decade in a fog of insanity and blindness.