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Delaware separates from Pennsylvania to become its own colony.
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The New Jersey colony is established by conjoining East and West Jersey.
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The first recurring newspaper in the colonies
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The Province of Carolina is split into two divisions thus creating North and South Carolina.
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The first theater in the colonies to open for business in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Province of Georgia corporate charter granted to General James Oglethorpe by British King George II
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The liberty Bell is cracked for the first time.
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod after earlier in the year proving that lightning was electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm.
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The British troops fire into a mob, killing 5 men which in turn lead to intense public protesting.
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A group of men disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped more than three-hundred crates of tea into the water, protesting the British Tea Tax.
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This war was known as the American war of independence, which began as a war between Great Britain and Thirteen British colonies on the north American continent. Gaining allies such as France, Spain and American colonist.
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Thomas Paine published his pamphlet "common sense"
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The Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
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The Continental congress adopts the first US Constitution.
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The end of the treacherous war.
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The Treaty of Paris is signed meaning Great Britain finally acknowledges their independence bringing the war to an end.
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The Constitutional Convention meets in Philadelphia to draft the constitution.
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George Washington is voted unanimously into office by state electors.
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The first ten Amendments were ratified.
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The invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney caused a high demand for slave labor.
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John Adams is elected into office as the second president.