A history of the United States for schools . os-sible to come to any understanding with George HI.,the sentiment in favor of independence grew rapidlyfrom month to month. In the course of the winterthere was fighting in North Carolina between the Toriesand the revolutionary party, in which the former weretotally defeated. Lord Dunmore, the royal governor ofVirginia, was driven out of the state, and the Britishfleet upon which he took refuge burned the town of Nor-folk. Several of the colonies made for themselves newstate governments. At length, in June, the motion was made in Congress that the
A history of the United States for schools . os-sible to come to any understanding with George HI.,the sentiment in favor of independence grew rapidlyfrom month to month. In the course of the winterthere was fighting in North Carolina between the Toriesand the revolutionary party, in which the former weretotally defeated. Lord Dunmore, the royal governor ofVirginia, was driven out of the state, and the Britishfleet upon which he took refuge burned the town of Nor-folk. Several of the colonies made for themselves newstate governments. At length, in June, the motion was made in Congress that these United Colonies are, and of right ought tobe, free and independent states, that they are absolvedfrom all allegiance to the British crown, and that all 2IO THE REVOLUTION. Ch. X- political connection between them and the state ofLees fa- Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dis-tionln° solved. The motion was made by RichardCongress. Hcnry Lee, of Virginia, and seconded by JohnAdams, of Massachusetts. It was carried, on July 2, and. STATE HOUSE AT PHILADELPHIA.! the Declaration of Independence, written by ThomasJefferson, was adopted July 4. The same peal of bells which celebrated the declara-. tion welcomed the news of a victory in the A victory _ ? in the South. Sir Henry Clinton had conducted an expedition against Charleston. But Colonel William Moultrie had built on Sullivans Island, in the ! This view of the old State House is taken from the Columbian Maga-zine, July, 1787. The building is now known as Independence Hall. Itwas built in 1729-34. Here the Declaration of Independence was adopted;and here, in 1787, from May to September, sat the Convention whichframed the Constitution of the United States. § S6. CAUSES AND BEGINNINGS. 211 harbor, a low-lying fortress of palmetto logs ; and, on the28th of June, when the British fleet tried to pass in, itwas terribly cut up by the guns of the fortress, which
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