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- 3. Explosive devices used to celebrate the holiday
- 6. Building in which the document was signed
- 8. Number of colonies that signed the document
- 9. The principle author of the Declaration of Independence
- 11. First and largest signature on the document
- 12. Sewed together the first American Flag
- 13. Thrown into the Boston Harbor as a protest against taxes
- 14. First state to recognize the holiday
- 15. Number of Signers that signed the document
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- 1. President that was born on this day
- 2. He put forth the motion to declare Independence
- 4. City in which the Second Continental Congress met in to Draft the Declaration of Independence
- 5. Declared independence from
- 7. know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!''
- 10. Wrote the Star Spangled Banner