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Episode 281: Declared Independence

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How to Make 13 Clocks Strike All at Once

There was a test vote taken on July 1, 1776. Pennsylvania voted against independence. Delaware and South Carolina came around to the idea of independence. John Adams would later write that it was like making 13 clocks all strike at the same time.

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