June 30, 2024 (sunday)
MorningINDEPENDENCE HALL
Welcome to the room where it 'really' started! In 1776, the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence here. Eleven years later, in the same room, delegates to the Constitutional Convention created and signed an enduring framework of government - the United States Constitution. Although known today as Independence Hall, the building was constructed to be the Pennsylvania State House. It once housed all three branches of Pennsylvania’s colonial government. MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The Museum of the American Revolution is dedicated to telling the story of the American Revolution.Visitors follow a chronological journey from the roots of conflict in the 1760s to the rise of armed resistance, the Declaration of independence of 1776 through the final years of the war. Visitors see the diversity of revolutionary-era Americans and their opinions |
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