On April 1775, the gunfire in Lexington kicked off the American War of Independence. From late March of 1776, South Carolina, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Providence declared their independence from Britain. 1On June 7th, 776, Qiu Xiaodong, the representative of Virginia Colony, moved a motion to declare that "the colony is a free and independent country, and it must be a free and independent country according to its rights". On June 1 1, according to the resolution of the Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson, john adams, Benjamin Franklin, roger sherman and robert livingston formed the Declaration Drafting Committee. Because Franklin suffered a stroke and couldn't work, Sherman and Livingston were not well educated, so the main writers fell on john adams, especially Jefferson, who was only 33 years old.

On June 28th, Jefferson drafted this document, which was slightly revised by Adams and Franklin. On the same day, the Declaration Drafting Committee submitted the draft declaration to the Continental Congress for discussion. In the next two days, Jefferson listened to 65 critics at the meeting to review and revise his declaration word by word, and the paragraphs in the manuscript that strongly criticized the slave trade of King George III of England were deleted. On July 4th, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, and decided to submit it to the conference of state representatives for deliberation. /kloc-representatives of 0/3 colonies successively signed the text of the declaration. 19 In July, the Continental Congress decided that the Declaration of Independence should be in the form of a unanimous declaration, which was officially cleared and signed by everyone. The date when all the delegates to the Continental Congress signed the parchment was August 2nd. Because the declaration was regarded as an authentic rebel document at that time, the name of the signer was kept secret for more than half a year. 177765438+1October 19, the continental congress announced the list of signatories of the declaration of independence for the first time. As for Jefferson as a writer, it took several years to be known to the world. It was not published in the newspaper until 1784.