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IndependenceHall, originally known as the Pennsylvania State House, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States, was the principal meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1783, and the site of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776 and the drafting of the United States Constitution in 1787.
It is now part of Independence National Historical Park, administered by the National Park Service, and is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
IndependenceHall is on the back of the U.S. $100 bill.
Construction of the Pennsylvania State House, which came to be known as IndependenceHall, began in 1732.
IndependenceHall is, by every estimate, the birthplace of the United States.
Also important is that the Congress was split into two houses, the upper house (originally in the upper floor of adjoining Congress Hall), and the lower house (main floor of Congress Hall); the first gave equal power to all the states regardless of size and the second gave proportional representation according to size.
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