Q: Do some historians consider the Revolutionary War as the first American civil war?
A: Depends on the historian. The colonists were equally divided into three groups: 1) Patriots; 2) Loyalist; 3) Undecided. The good news, the Patriots (militia and partisans) were considered guerilla fighters – they didn’t fight fair.
Q: Was the Declaration “actually” signed on July 4, 1776?
A: Depends on the historian. Some say that was the day it was sent out to Kinko’s for Xeroxing.
Q: How long before the declaring of the Declaration did the fighting start?
A: Lexington Green (“the shot heard around the world”) was April 19, 1775. April 19 is coincidently the date that the first soldiers were killed in the “second” American Civil War by the good people of Baltimore. And also coincidently, lads from Massachusetts were the ones to die on both those April 19’s.
Q: Did many of the founding fathers use the outcome of the war as an excuse to not pay their English debts?
A: Now, that’s a silly question!
Part 2