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Nearly a year later, in the spring of 1776, the Congress decided the colonies should become free and independent states.
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John Adams and his son Jonny got on a ship to go to France to help the americans.
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There was a fight bewtween to ships the boston won and took all the things they had.
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March 24, the Boston saw the coast of Europe at last, and soon they reached their port in France.
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Thomas Jefferson, a leader from Virginia, wrote a document explaining why the colonies should be free from Great Britain. That document was the Declaration of Independence. It would be several years before American independence became official. In September of 1783, American and British leaders signed an agreement called the Treaty of Paris. This peace treaty ended the war. It also established the United States of America as a free and independent nation.
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The Constitution stated that the people ruled the government. It formed three separate branches—executive, legislative, and judicial— with different powers that balance one another. However, it included few individual rights. After the treatment of the British government, some leaders, called Anti-Federalists, worried that the Constitution did not protect individual rights enough.