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Learn about who drafted the Declaration of Independence and how they drafted the document as the Revolutionary cause hung in the balance.

July 4 may have been the day that the Declaration of Independence was approved, and a new nation emerged, but the consequences of the Declaration would extend far into the future.

View a timeline of important dates and years from the Museum's Season of Independence interactive feature.

Season of Independence modular activities have been designed in alignment with history standards from the National Center for History in the Schools.

Introduce students to the scope, depth, and diversity of British North America and the British Empire in the years preceding the Declaration of Independence.

Introduce students to the ways that 18th-century Americans expressed their opinions, protested, and engaged in decision-making within their communities and the colonies during the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras.

Introduce students to the events leading up to independence, helping them place the spring and summer of 1776 within a larger context of political/diplomatic and military events that would shape decision-making.

Introduce students to the motivations that different people had for supporting independence and show them how support for independence was a last resort for many.

Introduce students to the fact that there were many people who opposed the idea of independence, and that they had a variety of reasons for doing so.

Introduce students to the people that sought to remain neutral on the matter of independence, and those who saw benefits and challenges to supporting either side.