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Independence Hall In 1753, the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall, was completed. In 1776, Washington finished a letter to John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress. He reports that Dorchester Heights is secured. He relays intelligence from Captain Irvine, a Massachusetts mariner who escaped from Boston, describing British confusion and hurried plans for departure. In 1778, The 1st warship of the new American Navy, the 24-gun frigate Alfred c

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Independence Hall In 1753, the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall, was completed. In 1776, Washington finished a letter to John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress. He reports that Dorchester Heights is secured. He relays intelligence from Captain Irvine, a Massachusetts mariner who escaped from Boston, describing British confusion and hurried plans for departure. In 1778, The 1st warship of the new American Navy, the 24-gun frigate Alfred c

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"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn." James Madison

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"It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust." James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 62

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Original Oreo Cookie Ad from 1912 In 1646, Joseph Jenkes received the 1st patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts. In 1731, Augustine Washington and Mary Ball were married, though the exact location of their wedding is unknown. What is known, however, is that their union laid the foundation for one of the most influential families in American history. In 1770, an estimated 5000 angry citizens of Boston gathered the day after the "Mas

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"If those who are inclined to consult their jealousy only, would exercise it in a careful inspection of the several State constitutions, they would find little less room for disquietude and alarm, from the latitude which most of them allow in respect to elections, than from the latitude which is proposed to be allowed to the national government in the same respect." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 61

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David Dunbar Buick In 1623, Virginia enacted the first American temperance law. In 1750, the first American Shakespearean production, an altered Richard III, was performed in New York City. In 1770, five American colonists were shot by British troops in the Boston Massacre . The colonists killed included Crispus Attucks , Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Patrick Carr. This event galvanized anti-British feelings in the lead-up to the American Revolution . In

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