Creating the United States

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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 produced their own versions as copies of Dunlap’s broadside were taken by land and water from Philadelphia. The first newspaper printing of the Declaration was in Benjamin Towner’s Pennsylvania Evening Post on July 6, 1776.
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 produced their own versions as copies of Dunlap’s broadside were taken by land and water from Philadelphia. The first newspaper printing of the Declaration was in Benjamin Towner’s <em>Pennsylvania Evening Post</em> on July 6, 1776.