→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Nazis, The British Accent, and BBC News https://youtu.be/_hRQq5e7Wi0?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt The Truth About Double Jeopardy https://youtu.be/Tgjip92-ZMg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: For four hot, humid July days, 56 delegates of the Second Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia with one purpose – to ratify the Declaration of Independence. The document, originally drafted by Thomas Jefferson with the help of Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, ad Robert Livingston, declared that the thirteen American colonies were now independent and free of the tyranny of the British Empire. On July 4th, with the final wording in place, it was ready for the whole world to read; though, it would be about another month before congress would actually sign it, contrary to popular belief. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/12/articles-confederation-constitution-constitution/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html http://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/Articles http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/artconf.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War http://books.google.com/books?id=pFXLAMC1xtUC&q=127#v=snippet&q=127&f=false http://www.cliffsnotes.com/more-subjects/american-government/the-constitution/the-articles-of-confederation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion http://johncashon.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/shays-rebellion-and-the-arti