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We were gratefully lucky to meet and interview with the founding fathers John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. They told us “Thirteen wheels require a steady and powerful regulator to keep them in good order…”

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We asked many people about this important part of our history this included Joseph Plumb Martin. Joseph Plumb Martin is a 15 year-old boy from Connecticut. He signed up to help the Americans and he stayed with the army until the war ended. Joseph told us "We had lived together as a family of brothers for several years, And now were to be separated." Joseph missed the "family" that he formed over the years, but is glad they got there independence because he states “I hope I shall one day find land enough to lay my bones in.” Now that they are no longer with the British they have more freedom to live where they want

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                                        Treaty SIGNED, War OVER         

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                                        Treaty SIGNED, War OVER         

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A few days ago on September 3, 1783 the Treaty of Paris also known as the "Peace of Paris" was signed. It stated six conditions

1. The United States was independent.

2. Its boundaries would be the Mississippi River on the west, Canada on the north, and Spanish Florida on the south.

3. The United States would receive the right to fish off Canada’s Atlantic Coast, near Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.

4. Each side would repay debts it owed the other.

5. The British would return any enslaved persons they had captured.

6. Congress would recommend that the states return any property they had seized from Loyalists.

The British signed, but were still embarrassed by there defeat and refuse to pose for a painting