How Did Thomas Mnkean Obtain Independence

Thomas McKean was born in New London, Pennsylvania on March 19, 1734. With his cousin David Finney they both studied law under eminent Francis Allison. As a student he worked as the Prothonotory Court of Common Pleas for New Castle, Delaware. He was admitted to the bar in Delaware before the age of 21. He was commissioned to his first political office in 1756, that of deputy Attorney General to county Sussex, Pennsylvania. In 1762 he was appointed a colleague by the assembly, this person was Ceasar Rodney. He was charged with revising and printing the laws of the province of Delaware.
That year he was elected a delegate to the Assembly, and was re­elected for seventeen years despite a six year residence outside the commonwealth. He served as a trustee of the provincial loan office. In the year of 1775 he was the delegate for the Delaware Stamp Act Congress in New York. McKean also served on the national …show more content…
He actually lived a very long and successful life and it seemed like in the movie they really tried to portray that. But still in the beginning Pennsylvania did not want to be independent, i think they were more or less utterly intimidated instead of like fully rejecting independence. But still after a little convincing they decided upon voting for independence. Without his changing of mind the future of The United States of America could have been drastically altered.
On the grand scale though i thought the movie really was not historically accurate. I feel like it did not take them that long to decide on independance. Also some of the minor events i'm positive did not happen. But i'm sure they meant to do that so that the movie was more entertaining for the general public and not just the history buffs. But they made sure to incorporate enough real people and enough real events to i guess somewhat consider some of it accurate but not as a whole