1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Who We Fought for Independence
Poll shows some Americans need to brush up on the Revolutionary War
By Juan DeJesus
Getty Images/Spencer Platt
NEW YORK - JULY 03: A woman looks at a view part of the Declaration of Independence, which is on view at the New York Public Library on July 3, 2009 in New York City. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 and announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, were now independent states. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
As grills across America fire up this weekend some Americans may want to crack open a history book instead of a cold beer.
A Marist poll finds that 26 percent of Americans don’t know whom the United States declared its independence from.
The 26 percent includes 6 percent that are unsure that the United States fought any war of independence at all. Other respondents gave a range of countries that included France, China, Mexico, Spain and Japan, according to the pollsters at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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