Question

lesson 2.3 summary
by june 1776 the second continental congress had told the colonies to establish new state governments separate from the british colonial governments. while congress resisted taking the formal step of declaring independence, on june 7, 1776, it moved closer. that day, virginian richard henry lee proposed a resolution to congress that the colonies should be “free and independent states” and that “all political connection between them and the state of great britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
congress postponed consideration of the lee resolution until a formal statement of independence could be drafted. congress formed a committee to do this, and thomas jefferson of virginia became the main author of the document that became known as the declaration of independence. jefferson began the document with a proclamation of independence and the claim that independence would gain the colonists the natural rights they deserved as citizens. then, he listed the specific ways in which the king had failed to protect americans’ natural rights.
in the transition from colonies to state, the states wrote new constitutions or modified existing royal charters. all of these new constitutions called for limited government. one way to do that was through a separation of powers. to do so, the constitutions spread government functions and powers among different branches of government. the state constitutions also embraced the concept of popular sovereignty, that idea that the people hold the ultimate power of government.
what was the name of the resolution that proposed colonial independence?
what was the name of the document that proclaimed the colonists free from britain?

Explanation:

The text mentions that on June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposed a resolution to Congress for colonial independence, which is called the Lee Resolution. And the document that proclaimed the colonists free from Britain is the Declaration of Independence, written mainly by Thomas Jefferson.

Answer:

What was the name of the resolution that proposed colonial independence? Lee Resolution
What was the name of the document that proclaimed the colonists free from Britain? Declaration of Independence