The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. United StatesDeclarationofIndependenceIndex Chapter 1: Story of Declaration 1.1 Congress convenes1.2 Toward independence1.3 Revising instructions1.4 May 15 preamble1.5 Lee's resolution1.6 The final push1.7 Draft and adoption1.8 Annotated text of the engrossed declaration1.9 Influences and legal status1.10 Signing1.11 Publication and reaction1.12 History of the documentsChapter 2: John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence (1817-1826)2.1 Slavery and the Declaration2.2 John Brown's Declaration of Liberty2.3 Lincoln and the Declaration2.4 Women's suffrage and the DeclarationChapter 3: Twentieth century and laterChapter 4: Slavery in the colonial history of the United StatesChapter 5: The first enslaved AfricansChapter 6: 18th century
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