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13 Original Colonies: A Beginner's Guide to Colonial America
The 13 colonies can be divided into three distinct ... This region included Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. In the American colonies, governing structures varied ...
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Newly Discovered Letters Illuminate the Life of a Female Printer Who Published Revolutionary Texts and Pushed the Colonies Toward Independence
As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent ...
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Celebrating July 4th
On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from ... State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved ...
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Colonial laws
The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...