Why do we celebrate the Fourth of July?
America's Birthday Bang
Why do we celebrate the Fourth of July?
Every summer, on the Fourth of July, the sky over America turns into a firework garden. There are hot dogs, parades, and enough sparklers to make the night twinkle. But behind all the fun is a birthday — the birthday of a whole country. Let's rewind almost 250 years to find out how it started.
Long ago, thirteen colonies sat along the eastern edge of what is now the United States. They weren't a country yet. They belonged to Britain, an island ruled by a king far across the ocean. The people living there were, on paper, British subjects — even though many of them had never seen Britain at all.
