6. After the Dec. was signed, the colonies started calling themselves __?

The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British.  

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The 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress represented the 13 former colonies which had declared themselves the "United States of America," and they endorsed the Declaration of Independence which the Congress had approved on July 4, 1776.

Date: August 2, 1776

Locations: Independence Hall

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