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The first English settlement founded in Virginia.
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Parliament had required that all legal documents, business agreements, and newspapers had to use stamps.
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5 colonists were killed in the result of the "Massacre." Paul Revere drew the picture that relates to it, which makes the Red Coats look like the bad guys.
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Men disguised as Native Americans boarded 3 tea ships and dumped all of the tea into the sea, ending the Tea Act.
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"The shot heard 'round the world."
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The Declaration of Independence was signed and ratified on July 4, 1776. Every year on July 4, we now know as Independence Day, which Americans celebrate the day we became a free country.