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13 Original Colonies: A Beginner's Guide to Colonial America
The 13 colonies can be divided into three distinct ... This region included Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. In the American colonies, governing structures varied ...
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Celebrating July 4th
On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from ... State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved ...
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Indentured Servants In The U.S.
With passage to the Colonies expensive for all but the wealthy, the Virginia Company developed the system of indentured servitude to attract workers. Indentured servants became vital to the ...
Virginia state flag hung in Gwangju as mayor labels President Yoon Suk Yeol a ‘tyrant’
The city of Gwangju on Friday hung the flag of the US state of Virginia outside City Hall, in apparent defiance to President ...
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Colonial laws
The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...