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What was the first colony to declare independence from england

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Rhode Island

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On May 4, 1776, Rhode Island, the colony founded by the most radical religious dissenters from the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony, becomes the first North American colony to renounce its allegiance to King George III.

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Rhode island was the first colony to declare independence from england
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