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July I, 177(i. . .a fledgling nalion breaks lies with her mother country, Great Britain, ready to spread her wings on her flight to freedom.

In a period of more than one hundred years, the American colonies had grown to thirteen in number, maturing into a nation possessing religious and political views differing from those of Great Britain, culminating in our War for Independence. The colonists would tolerate oppression and injustice no longer. They would govern their own, retaining their rights, including that of religious free

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