Independence Hall

The Independence Hall
The day” the United States” was born is July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia. When the Federal convention finished the Constitution, after it ratification all the states in America, The United States was perpetuated on September 17, 1787. These two great decisions were decided in the same place which is called Independence Hall.
The Provincial State House
The Independence Hall was used to be the State House of Pennsylvania. For about half century after the build of the Province, the government didn’t have any official building. The Assembly was forced to meet in a personal residence rented every year for purpose or in the old Court House at Second and High streets which were the Market streets now.
In order the needs for Province, the funds were suitable for the construction of the State House on 1729. At the same time, a committee including of Speakers of the Assembly Andrew Hamilton, Assemblyman Dr. John Kearsley, and Councilman Thomas Lawrence, was named to supervise the job. But there are strong disagreement between Hamilton and Kearsley. It is Because of the supporting a different location and plan. This disagreement put off actually beginning work on the building until 1732. In that year the Assembly approved the plan Hamilton advocated and selected the south side of Chestnut Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets as the site.
Two architectural drawings of the State House that survive are surely proposed by Andrew Hamilton. Because of the drawing reelects are not as finally built. Hamilton’s main builder, master carpenter Edmund Woolley was paid for making other drawings of the State House, clearly a set for Governor John Penn to take home to England in 1735. And a set for the tower and the additions of the steeple and other renovations in the 1750s. No working drawing survives they were likely old and shabby during construction and discarded.
Building the State House was very slow course. The Assembly was not able to see the new building until September 1735. In that time the walls didn’t paneled yet. And there is no window panes been installed either. Finally, in the summer of 1741, the impatient Assembly ordered the walls and windows is finished.
In January 1750, after the State House was completed. The Assembly accepted the superintendents of the building to set up the tower to contain a staircase and belfry. Edmund was to commission with the construction. The tower was completed before 1753. The State House bell which is the Liberty Bell now was ordered in 1751 and was hung.
The State House and Independence
After the first Congress adjourned on October 26, 1774, the relation between colony and mother country grew stably bad. On May 10, the Second Continental Congress meet have a bad atmosphere in the Assembly Room of the State House. They moved from protest to resistance. Under the presidency of John Hancock, the Congress chose George Washington to be General and Commander in Chief of the Army. Not until June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee offers a resolution declaring.” That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” After two days debating, to think over the resolution was postponed for some weeks. On July 2, 1776, Richard Henry Lee’s resolution was adopting . On August 2, its’ the end of British authority in the America colonies and it’s the birth to the United States of America.
The Declaration is one of the greatest statements of the democratic rights declaration. And it’s written most by Thomas Jefferson. “[Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness] Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Is the principle of the America forever.

Reference material
• http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_indhall.htm
• http://www.frommers.com/destinations/philadelphia/A32265.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Hall_%28United_States%29
• http://independencehall.org/index.html
• http://www.ushistory.org/independencehall/history/indhall1.htm
• http://www.voafanti.com/gate/big5/www.voanews.com/english/archive/2009-07/2009-07-01-voa57.cfm?CFID=262494567&CFTOKEN=68801888&jsessionid=0030fc6271992b8bfb71585f7a251e72647c
• http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13772.html