Why do so many people not know what year the Declaration of Independence was signed?

Question

I ask because some people I know either had know idea or thought it was after 1776, examples are 1848, 1948, 1865, etc..

In case you didn't notice, I did not say all, I just said a lot of people don't know, which is sad and pathetic and I was hoping someone could tell me why they did not know. As for the South Park qoute, it was 1/4 not 1/3. I tend to agree with that.

JC, I did not ask the question, it was the teacher who asked. Those answers posted earlier were just a few wrong answers thrown out. Except for myself, there were relatively few people in the class that knew the correct answer out of 20 some people. Warnstedt, you greenie (sorry, but I am from Southern Wyoming and had to get that out of my system).

Answer 1

Because so many people are morons.

Answer 2

incredibly, a lots later date may be greater precise. We have fun the date we declared independence, not the date the statement substitute into incredibly ratified nor the date we actually gained independence. we are taught to forget with regard to the reality that shall we've nonetheless lost the conflict and then affirming our independence in the Revolution could have been ineffective as we would have remained colonies of Britian. we are additionally incorrectly taught that the 2nd Continental Congress signed the statement on July 4, 1776, hence ratifing it on that date. attempt August 2, 1776, it incredibly is the incredibly date of ratification. to verify that a record to truly be ratified those ratifying it could sign their names to it to make the ratification expert, a super form of the delegates did not sign till August 2nd with in basic terms Hancock signing July 4th. yet we had to win the conflict so as to without a doubt benefit our independence. which means a date of October 19, 1781 while Cronwallis surrendered to Washington, bringing the conflict to an end. then you fairly seem to September 3, 1783 while the Treaty of Paris substitute into ratified, formally ending the conflict and affirming the colonies a clean, self sustaining usa.

Answer 3

Well, maybe because they were born a way lot of years later. Besides it is not a subject of discussion that a person tends to have regularly, not even rarely. Maybe you ask it a lot, because you like to brag about your knowledge, but I for one don't walk around asking: "when was the declaration of indepence signed? When was Abraham Lincoln elected president? When was the nuclear bomb deployed over Hiroshima?" And I would say that more than 90% of the American population doesn't either. You would probably say it is common knowledge, but there is no such things as common knowledge. There is, however, populous knowledge: knowledge that is given a certain grade of importance opposed to other knowledges. Any way, did you know that each week we tend to forget about 90% of what we have learned? Stop trying to test others' "common" knowledge and start testing your own. Ask about things you don't know, learn and rejoice. Do not critisize. Even better, teach if you have the spirit to do so. Geez, you are unbearable.
Stop living in the past, you will miss the present and ruin your future. If you know, great. If you teach, better. But always... respect.

Answer 4

have you been to a school lately? they are jokes. complete jokes! i learned next to nothing at school except how to sleep with my eyes open and how to get out of class. this is what is being taught to children today. unless you get a really good teacher, then you may actually learn something worth knowing. such as what year the Declaration of Independence was signed, and by whom.



RE: what do you mean by "greenie"? if you mean that im a Boulderite, than you are very very correct.

Answer 5

People thought the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1948???

Answer 6

its evidentially not important to them, however, waht is more important to knwo the date it was signed or what it means. knowing a date is not so important. when was the beginnign of the second revolution? (1848) when did the war of 1812 end? (1814).. when was the second resurectin of the ku klux klan? (1915). These are probably mostly unimportant to most people but not a historical scholar liek myself

Answer 7

Dont you watch south park, 1/3 of americans are retards,

a gallop poll last year proved that out of 10,000 americans surveyed 100 % of them could recite more of snow whites dwarfs than they could past US presidents.

Answer 8

Most people have forgotten the struggles of the past. I'll bet most don't know who we gained Independence from. The History channel gets skipped by most people.

Answer 9

Because it was signed over a span of few years. All the signers were not in the same place at the same time.

Answer 10

If you think that's bad, when I was in 8th grade (14 year olds) some girl in my class actually answered that the turkey was our national bird. She really thought it was!

Answer 11

what do you mean? I know! I am studying it in my social studies class right now! 1776 even without this class I would still know