Broadside · A 1776 town · 1776
The Declaration of Independence
93Sit with it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
A people stating why they are leaving a king. The sheet was heard in a yard, not kept as a private letter.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
John Dunlap printed it overnight. Congress ordered the sheets sent to the assemblies and the army. John Nixon read it in the State House yard on July 8. The army heard it in New York on July 9. Few houses owned a copy. A town could hear it.
The score holds two things at once. The claim that rights are not a king's to give is the high part. The men who adopted it struck out a condemnation of the slave trade, and slavery continued. Do not quote the promise and skip the bill.
Folio
Keep The Declaration of Independence in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
9/10
A committee did the labor, and the bill of grievances is specific work.
Household
9/10
Posterity is named. It is not a story about one house.
Piety
9/10
Nature's God and the Creator are in the sentence. A soul is allowed. A church is not established.
Courage
10/10
To sign it, if they lost, was a hanging offense.
Republic
10/10
The document is the republic question said in public.
Temperance
9/10
The tone is an indictment, controlled. It does not gloat.
Truth
9/10
The rights are stated plainly. Congress cut the passage on the slave trade, and the country went on holding people as property. That omission is part of the score.
Stewardship
9/10
It was handed to a people, and it did not free the people already in chains. Later generations used the promise against that fact.
Live historicallyRead the opening aloud. Then say, out loud, who in 1776 was not included in the word men.