Based on what my dad told me (he was a HUGE history buff), today is technically Independence Day because it was July 3 when the big paper was signed, but it wasn't publicized until the next day. And many of the men behind those signatures lost their lives before long.
Quite an amazing story. On one hand, the King of England thought he could have literally anything he wanted, including people on the other side of the globe. Whatever the King wanted, the King got, no matter what it took. He even thought he had the right to run the Church as he saw fit, which was a pretty big no-no. It was becoming less God's Church and more the King's Church.
On the other hand, the Americans wanted to be their own people with their own government. They were understandably frustrated at being under the perpetual thumb of a tyrant. They were like grown-up children with parents who just couldn't allow them to grow up and make their own choices.
Push came to shove on both ends, and neither side was going down without a serious fight. And thus the American Revolution broke out, and the rest was (quite literally) history.
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