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Hello, and thanks for joining Revolution 250.

This is where we remember events that took place 250 years ago this week.

It's a short bonus episode from the American Revolution podcast to remember these important

250th anniversaries from the Revolutionary War.

This week, we remember Virginia's vote to instruct the Continental Congress to declare

independence on May 15, 1776.

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Last week, we covered Congress's May 10th vote to call in the states to establish independent

governments. After that vote, John Adams and others added a preamble

that essentially said that these independent governments were necessary

because of all the abuse from the king in parliament.

So the preamble made it sound much closer to an actual declaration of independence

against Britain than simply a matter of we need to have governments in place and we don't have any

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