Why Do We Celebrate July 4th? #history #travel #july4th

Why Do We Celebrate July 4th? #history #travel #july4th
The easy answer is that July 4 is celebrated because that's the day in 1776 when the country declared its freedom from British rule by signing the Declaration of Independence.
When the other 56 delegates of the the Continental Congress, the governing body of what were 13 U.S. colonies, signed is unclear. The document declared that the colonists in America were thereby free from British rule, even though the Revolutionary War was still raging.
the Continental Congress declared its freedom from on July 2, 1776. On that day, they voted on a resolutions that said "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
For what it's worth, a month earlier Rhode Island was the first colony to renounce allegiance to Great Britain, declaring Independence by a legislative act on May 4, 1776.
The U.S. Congress initially made it a federal holiday in 1870, but "in 1941, the provision was expanded to grant a paid holiday to all federal employees,
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