Key Figures

There were a lot of important people involved in the getting America getting its independence. Even though Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, there were other contributing people to it as well. these men following men were Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and John Adams. Due to their contributions, Jefferson and Adams both would become President of this new country after then President George Washington. We found out that there are 56 signatures on the Declaration of Independence separated by columns in the state in which each representative is from.

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