Hvornår blev uafhængighedserklæringen underskrevet?
2. august 1776
Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence
Underskrivelsen af USA's uafhængighedserklæring fandt (primært) sted den 2. august 1776 i Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) i Philadelphia i Pennsylvania. De 56 delegerede til den anden kontinentalkongres repræsenterede de 13 tidligere kolonier, som havde erklæret sig selv for "Amerikas Forenede Stater", og de godkendte den uafhængighedserklæring, som kongressen havde godkendt den 4. juli 1776. Erklæringen proklamerede, at de tretten kolonier, der dengang var i krig med Storbritannien, nu var suveræne stater og dermed ikke længere var en del af det britiske imperium. Underskrivernes navne er grupperet efter stat, med undtagelse af præsidenten for den kontinentale kongres John Hancock; staterne er ordnet geografisk fra nord til syd.
August 2, 1776
Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred (primarily) on August 2, 1776 at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress represented the 13 former colonies which had declared themselves the "United States of America," and they endorsed the Declaration of Independence which the Congress had approved on July 4, 1776. The Declaration proclaimed that the Thirteen Colonies then at war with Great Britain were now sovereign states and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. The signers’ names are grouped by state, with the exception of President of the Continental Congress John Hancock; the states are arranged geographically from north to south.
Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence