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Becoming America

You're Dead to Me

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The First Order of Business on the First Day of New America

The American colonies were under british rule, and then in the 17 sixties, there were a series of acts and taxations that angered a lot of the american colonists. So they met in 17 74 in the first continental congress to organize petitions and things like that,. In 17 75, actual war broke out. 17 76, you get the second continental congress. They actually declare independence, and then you have a war. And then it ends with the treaty of paris in 17 83, after hav won the war. The whole thing basically just an attempt to win a holiday. America had to go to france. As with the famous line from the hamilton music hall

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