The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They’d been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes.July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy handwritten copy that was signed in August (th...
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