Independence

=__Meckklenburg and Halifax Resolves__=

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 * The British attempt to invade North Carolina. William Hooper, a delegate to the Continental Congress wrote that "it would be Toryism to hint the possibility of future reconcilitation." On April 1776, the Provincial Congress decided that the whole pronvince should follow the example of Mecklenburg County. On April 12, 1776, the Congress passed the Halifax Resovles, which put together all the feelings about liberty and freedom.**======

=﻿__Declaration of Independence__=

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 * Written by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28 1776, it is the most charished thing in U.S. history. On July 1776, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn were the three North Carolinians who signed the Declaration of Independence. The document was read publicily in every courthouse in North Carolina.**======