Creating the United States

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Declaration of Independence Quickly Reprinted Throughout America

Declaration of Independence Quickly Reprinted Throughout America (038.01.00)

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After Congress approved the Declaration of Independence and it was first printed by John Dunlap of Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, printers throughout the new nation quickly printed their own versions as copies of Dunlap’s broadside made their way by land and water from Philadelphia. One of the first newspaper printings of the Declaration was in Mary Katherine Goddard’s Baltimore newspaper, the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.
After Congress approved the Declaration of Independence and it was first printed by John Dunlap of Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, printers throughout the new nation quickly printed their own versions as copies of Dunlap’s broadside made their way by land and water from Philadelphia. One of the first newspaper printings of the Declaration was in Mary Katherine Goddard’s Baltimore newspaper, the <em>Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser.</em>