Independence Hall

<p>The Second Continental Congress united representatives from the Thirteen Colonies in Philadelphia to support the American Revolutionary War and create a new country. Originally called the United Colonies, it was renamed the United States of America in 1776 and on June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposed a resolution for independence, which was approved by Congress on July 2. The congress then adopted the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms resolution and the United States Declaration of Independence.</p>

Congress Voting Independence by Edward Savage, and later Robert Edge Pine

<p>In 1820 the then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams commissioned William J. Stone, a printer, to create a copperplate engraving of the Declaration of Independence. This engraving was used to produce copies of the Declaration. The 1823 Stone engraving is now the most commonly replicated version of the Declaration.</p>

First, third and seventh Session of the Congress held at the Independence Hall in Philadelphia (then known as the Pennsylvania State House)