Quiz on US Independence Day : 4th of July : Test Your Knowledge

Iin 1870, Independence Day was made an unpaid holiday for federal employees. It became a legal and paid holiday in 1941

Officially, the Congree declared a freedom from the Great Britain on July, 2, 1776, when it approved a resolution and delegats from New York were permitted to make it a unanimous vote.

On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a “committee of five” consisiting John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Sherman and Robert B. Livington, to draft the Declaration. The commiittee of five operated from June 11,1776 to July 5, 1776.

Origianally, the delegates pushed for Richard Henry Lee, the author of the Lee Resolution, but circumstamce changed when a young delegate from Virginia who had shown great promise, was selected to draft the declrartion. His name was Thomas Jefferson.

Both John Adams, 90 and Thomas Jefferson, 83, died on the same day July 4, 1826. Added to this founded that died on Independence Day is James Monroe, who died at age 73, on Jluly 4, 1831.

The American Revolution was (1775-1783) also known as the American War of Independence, was an 18th century war, between Great Britain and its 13th colonies , which declared Independence as the United States of America

King George III was the king of Great Britain and King of Ireland from October 25 1760, until union of both countiries on January 1, 1801

John Hancock is primarily remembered by Americans for his large signature on th Delaration, so much that, his name became an informal synonym for signature in the United States

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States. He was born on July 4, 1872.

In 1776, during the War of Independence, the Second Continental Congress comprised of representatives from 13 British colonies in North America, approved the Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old when he signed the Declaration. He famously siad “We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately

John Hancock is famously remembered by Americans for his large signature on the Declaration of Independence