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In the text, “History of The Declaration of Independence”, the background of both the document that gave the United States its freedom, as well as its founder/former president. The colonists began to get angered by their mother land in the 1760s and 1770s, Great Britain as they set British policies that consumed the lives of the American colonists. The government at the time, the Second Continental Congress established their own currency “the Continental Currency”, in addition to an army. In the year 1776, the people of the colonies began to seek their minds, in Philadelphia, a man by the name of Richard Henry Lee drafted his resolution, which ‘“expressed the feelings and emotions” of many colonists. With the previous attempts to resolve issues

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