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“At the news of the Declaration of Independence crowds gathered to cheer, fire guns and cannon and ring church bells in Philadelphia. Boston and other places, but there were many people in America who did not rejoice.” Comment in about 200 words.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Origins of Modern Politics

The Declaration of Independence of 4 July 1776 produced genuine popular euphoria in the port towns of the Atlantic seaboard, but colonial America was never a homogeneous body of opinion, and the celebrations masked a society deeply split over the wisdom and even the legitimacy of the break with Britain.

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  • The Public Celebration and What It Reflected
  • Those Who Did Not Rejoice: The Loyalists
  • Those Who Stayed Silent: Neutrals and the Excluded
  • Explaining the Fracture

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