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Early American colonization and the birth of independence
Mrs. Truman Booth reads a Walter Burdick D A R address recounting Virginia and Connecticut charters, the 1619 Virginia Burgesses, Plymouth governance, the Stamp Act era, and the road to independence. It notes the First Continental Congress, the Declaration of Rights, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence with Franklin and Adams as key figures.
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Truman Booth
Walter Burdick
Crone
Virginia
England
George Yeardley
House of Burgesses
Jamestown
New York
Owe
Pilgrim Fathers
Plymouth
Connecticut
Charles H
Hartford
Nethersfield
Windsor
Conn
York
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Great Congress
Richard Henry Lee
Delaware
New Hampshire
Benjamin Franklin
United States