Halifax+Resolves

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The British army attempt to invade the province of convinced that their conflict could not be settled peacefully. On April 12,1776(//2nd Date on the state flag//) the Provincial Congress passed the ** Halifax Resolves **, which is put together all the feelings about liberty freedom that North Carolinians had been discussing for years. The resolves authorized the delegates in Philadelphia to join other colonies in seeking independence. North Carolina was the first out of the thirteen colonies to put it out there that WE WANTED INDEPENDENCE (//independent movement//). Later in July 1776, William Hopper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn were the three North Carolinians who signed the ** Decleration of Independence .**=====