1. The Colonies Declare
Independence
Chapter 6.2

2. Urging Independence
Thomas Paine
publishes Common
Sense.
Richard Henry Lee
introduces a
resolution to the
Continental

3. The Declaration Committee
John Adams
Benjamin
Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Robert
Livingston
Roger Sherman

4. Jefferson wrote the rough draft.
The committee made 47
changes before it was given to
Congress, who made 39 more
changes.

5. Parts of the
Declaration of
Independence
1. Natural Rights
2. British Wrongs
3. Independence