HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA 230 Years 1776 to 2006. July 4th.

Today July 4this the 230 birthday of the USA. its a big holiday for all those who live in the USA. Its a item to celebrate becoming a nation free from british rule and all those people who helped us to get to where we are for the children and the grand children of the up and comming generation. I don't know how MaNY people here are in the USA but i though i would post this cuz it is a important day. anyone else wanna comment.

Doesn't seem pretty important to me.... It was yesterday for me, because it is now July 5th. Freedom from British rule doesn't signify the USA's birthday - only the unity of its people does. The USA was not united properly until about 100 years later, after it had slaughtered over half a million of its own people in the American Civil War. The end of slavery, together with the end of the Civil War, would be a more accurate indication of the nation's unity and, thus, "birthday" - it ceased to be a group of warring states, and amalgamated to form the USA.

It's such an important day that we didn't get any help or support from our server company; nor could we get through to Yahoo! Search Marketing.
230 years ago they were still using manifest destiny to take over the states, and as Andreyevich all to rightly said, fight with themselves, and native indians. The birthday of the USA and not anniversary of unity of its people should be when the british rule began in the east.
There was the Boston Tea Party was a direct action protest by the American colonists against Great Britain... where they destored crates of tea; but arn't they in effect fighting against themselves?

The Declaration was used as a propaganda tool, in which the Americans tried to establish clear reasons for their rebellion that might persuade reluctant colonists to join them and establish their just cause to foreign governments that might lend them aid. The Declaration also served to unite the members of the Continental Congress. Most were aware that they were signing what would be their death warrant in case the Revolution failed, and the Declaration served to make anything short of victory in the Revolution unthinkable. (Or, as Benjamin Franklin wryly noted: "We must all now hang together, or we will all surely hang separately.")

I have studied American History in depth; and look at this...

Because it is dated July 4, 1776, many people believe it was signed on that date—it was signed August 2 by most of the delegates.

The Liberty Bell was not rung to celebrate independence, but to call the local inhabitants to hear the reading of the document on July 8, and it certainly did not acquire its crack on so doing; that story comes from a children's book of fiction, Legends of the American Revolution, by George Lippard. The Liberty Bell was actually named in the early nineteenth century when it became a symbol of the anti-slavery movement.

Anyway...
The USA probably didnt break away; it was us who didn't want to be responsibke for their little conflicts.I could carry on saying how much I don't like American Ideologies but than again; thats what this topics for...
http://forum.ivirtuaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=366

I could not imagine what I would be doing if we as the USA were still under control by another country. I just know its great to be free and independent with out any other country controlling what we do. That is what July 4th is partly about.

No country controlled what you do, they created the country, and not truly the day that the USA was created as we have justified above

Well us Britions feel that America is now controling us and most other countries feel the same, you talk about inderpendence and freedom but your goverment is doing the opisite by trying to be the worlds police.

Well I guess you have a good valid point there but somebody had to do something other wise we could have things worse off then the Iraq thing and now North Korea.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States still involved itself in military action overseas, including the 1991 Gulf War. Following his election in 1992, President Bill Clinton oversaw the longest economic expansion in American history, a side effect of the digital revolution and new business opportunities created by the Internet (see Internet bubble).

At the beginning of the new millennium, the United States found itself attacked by Islamist terrorism, with the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon orchestrated by Osama bin Laden. Another flight, Flight 93, crashed in Pennsylvania near a forest. It is believed this was intended to hit the White House. In response, under the administration of President George W. Bush, the United States (with the military support of NATO and the political support of most of the international community) invaded Afghanistan and overthrew the Taliban regime, which had supported and harbored bin Laden. More controversially, President Bush continued what he dubbed the War on Terrorism with the invasion of Iraq by overthrowing and capturing Saddam Hussein in 2003. This second invasion proved to be unpopular in many parts of the world, even amongst long-time American allies such as France, and helped fuel a global wave of anti-American sentiment.

The presidential election in 2000 was one of the closest in American history, and helped lay the seeds for political polarization to come. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina flooded parts of the city of New Orleans and heavily damaged other areas of the gulf coast, including major damage to the Mississippi coast. The preparation and the response of the government were criticized as ineffective and slow, respectively. As of 2006, the political climate remains polarized as debates continue over partial birth abortion, federal funding of stem cell research, separation of church and state, same-sex marriage, immigration reform and the ongoing war in Iraq. According to many recent opinion polls, a great majority of the American people are losing faith in both parties of the federal government and are dissatisfied about the present state of the nation.

Now there's a Wikipedia Job

Doesn't look disimilar to my History Coursework... but you could have forud some relevant information presented in the right context; not just some chunk of American History

Do you have any idea what time "independance day" and the events we have been debating where? Interesting; no doubt!