... is said that John Hancock signed his name "with a great flourish" so "King George can read that without spectacles!." The following day copies of the Declaration were distributed. The first newspaper to print the Declaration was the Pennsylvania Evening Post on July 6, 1776. On July 8th the Declaration had its first public reading in Philadelphia's Independence Square. Twice that day the ... 4th at a meeting in Philadelphia. Of the 13 colonies, 9 voted in favor of the Declaration, 2 - Pennsylvania and South Carolina voted 'No', Delaware remained undecided while New York abstained. The f...

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... Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other Americans. For instance: Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great', describing the pleasures of his successful contemporaries, and the dissatisfaction which they tried to extinguish with further indulgences. He ... ...

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... everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protestant of the Lutheran church. I once read in the newspaper that Denmark is the least religious country in the world. When I compare my own country to the U.S, I do not have to have read books or taken lessons to know that ... ...

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... the emotions and prejudices of voters, to their hopes and fears, and to their personal, class, and sectional interests. Emotional appeals were echoed in handbills, leaflets, and endless columns of newspaper print. Libelous documents were printed in opposition to Adams personally, as well as his Administration. Federalists also contributed to the libelous literature, by attacking Jefferson's religious affiliation. In newspapers, handbills ... ...

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... . The middle-class merchants and farmers resisted paying their taxes, while the poor rioted against these landlords and the insufferable high costs of living that they were subject to. One newspaper editor wrote in question of the distribution of wealth: "The is a growing number of Beggars and wandering poor in the streets of the city How often have our streets been ... ...

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