Independence day USA

Independence day USA - the day of the signing of the U.S. Declaration of independence in 1776, which proclaims the independence of the United States from the Kingdom of great Britain is celebrated in the United States of America on July 4.
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Independence day USA «July 4»

Independence day is considered the birthday of the United States as a free and independent country. Most Americans call the holiday just on date - "Fourth of July".
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The festival is accompanied by fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family meetings, appeals politicians to the people, and ceremonies, as well as other public and private events, traditional for the United States. Independence day is the national holiday of the United States.
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Holiday reminder that July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence. on July 2, the Second continental Congress by a vote approved a resolution of independence, which in June was proposed by Richard Henry Lee from Virginia.
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At that time the inhabitants of the 13 British colonies that were located along the East coast today, the United States waged war with the English king and Parliament in connection with the fact that the British Parliament in 1764 issued the "Law on the currency."
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This law prohibits the administration of the American colonies from issuing their own, unsecured and uncontrolled printed money and ordered them to continue to pay all taxes in gold and silver coins. In other words, the law forcibly transferred the colony on the gold standard.
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The war began in 1775. The Declaration of independence was prepared by the "Committee of five, headed by Thomas Jefferson. Congress debated and revised the Declaration, accepted it, in the end, the 4th of July.
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