Independence


 * Independence **

With the British continually taxing America, the American colonists decided to fight the British...this didn't work out so good. They couldn't stop the British from commanding by doing the things that they had done so they decided to use different methods. The Committee of Safety in Mecklenburg protested the British attacks more than any other so they had eventually decided to get Mecklenburg's leaders to come together at Queen's Academy to discuss anything that happened recently. The Committee then announced statements that became the Mecklenburg Resolves. The Mecklenburg Resolves was made to stop the British oppression with words rather than fighting. It was a document stating "the king's commissions were null and void".
 * Mecklenburg Resolves & Halifax Resolves**

Later, in 1776, the county of Halifax were being oppressed and so decided to act as Mecklenburg did when they created the Mecklenburg Resolves. They had put together the Halifax Resolves, which was a document that had pulled together all the ideas of liberty and freedom that North Carolinians had been discussing for quite a long time. The resolves authorized delegates on Philadelphia join other colonies and seek independence.


 * Declaration of Independence**