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U.S. Independence Day

Build grammar skills using this activity and answer key for an article about America's holiday called Independence Day.

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How do you celebrate Independence Day. Do you watch a fireworks concert, go to a parade, or attend a family barbecue. The holiday celebrates the day the United States proclaimed its independence from british rule. On July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams Thomas Jefferson and 53 other delegates from the second Continental Congress signed the declaration of independence. But the struggle for U.S. independence began well before than. The countries sovereignty would eventually be secured in 1783 with the singing of the Treaty of Paris. Congress voted to make Independence Day a federal holiday in 1870.

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How do you celebrate Independence Day? Do you watch a fireworks concert, go to a parade, or attend a family barbecue? The holiday celebrates the day the United States proclaimed its independence from British rule. On July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and 53 other delegates from the second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. But the struggle for U.S. independence began well before then. The country’s sovereignty would eventually be secured in 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Congress voted to make Independence Day a federal holiday in 1870.

 

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