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Foundations Grade 3, Unit 2, Lesson 1 ©2012, TESCCC

Continental Congress con=with gress=to walk congress: a formal meeting or assembly of representatives for discussion the leaders came together to meet and define path they would walk to achieve their goals of freedom for the colonies ©2012, TESCCC

At the Continental Congress, the committee to write the Declaration of Independence included: Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman ©2012, TESCCC

From a letter by John Adams where he remembers the writing of the Declaration of Independence: “The committee met, discussed the subject, and then appointed Mr. Jefferson and me to make the draft….” ©2012, TESCCC

From a letter to Abigail Adams written on July 3, 1776 “I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this declaration and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory; I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph “ ©2012, TESCCC

Charters of Freedom National Archives arters/declaration.html ©2012, TESCCC

Read aloud “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,…” ©2012, TESCCC