>Also known as Halifax Resolves Day, Halifax Resolutions Day, Halifax Independ
>e Day,
>or Halifax Resolutions of Independence Day, this is the day on which, in the
>ing of
>1776, North Carolina's delegates to the Second Continental Congress were give
>permission to join with representatives from other colonies in declaring thei
>independence from British rule.
As the first official sanction of separation from Great Britain, the Halifax
>olutions
>helped lay the groundwork for the American Revolution.
Not to be confused with Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.. B)
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