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Jamestown was the first of the 13 colonies. It was founded by The London Company in 1607
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Massachussetts was the second of the 13 colonies. It was formed in 1620 by the Separatist (or Puritans). They came over to escape British rule
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By 1770s Britain had colonies all along the east coast of the USA:New Hampshire,Massachusetts,Connecticut,Rhode Island,New York,New Jersey,Pennsylvania,Delaware,Maryland,Virginia,North Carolina,South Carolina and Georgia
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The colonists had to pay taxes to Britain and they were not happy about this. On December 1773, there was a protest called "The Boston tea party"
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The midnight raid,popularly known as the "Boston tea party",was in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773 and helped provoke the American War of independence which began in 1775 in Lexington.
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On July 1776, the colonists made a Declaration of indipendence from Britain and Thomas Jefferson wrote a Constitution
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With the help of France, General George Washington and his Continental Army defeated British General Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown on October 19,1781
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This led to the Treaty of Paris, officially ending the revolution on September 3,1783. George Washington became the first President
