On July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress took the Declaration of Independence which served as the sign of establishing of a new state - the USA.

According to the order of the Continental Congress the special committee containing five members, began working on the Manifest of Independence. The members of the above mentioned committee gave the responsibility to Thomas Jefferson, who perfectly got round to the given duty. He established three main goals for the authority: "Life, Independence and Eagerness for Happiness." The most part of the declaration contains the naming of the crimes committed by the English parliament and the king against the colonies.

The Declaration of Independence was several times changed before its ratification. To make it more concrete the declaration was entirely accepted except for the two paragraphs, out of which one was somehow changed and another completely withdrawn. The changed paragraph contained the claims against English people and as the authors of the reforms had some hopes for England, they didn't intend to make English friends angry. As for the withdrawn paragraph it deals with the problematic question - abolition of the slave trade.

In his memoirs Thomas Jefferson wrote: "They have deleted the paragraph because of the king of England and South Carolina, as they both tried their best to maintain the slavery and trading by the colored people." After three days of debates, on July 4 the Congress approved the Declaration of Independence.