Insular Territories The U.S. Postal Department also used general issue stamps with the territorial name overprinted, such as PUERTO RICO, CUBA, GUAM, PHILIPPINES or CANAL ZONE. Cuba was granted independence, Canal Zone returned to Panama. 130px|<center> Puerto Rico overprint1899 issue 130px|<center> Cuba overprint1899 issue 120px|<center>Guam overprint1899 issue 130px|<center>Philippines overprint1903 issue  160px|<center>Canal Zone overprint1925 issue The founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, commemorated on its 300th anniversary in 1930, was the culmination of a process begun ten years earlier with the signing of the Mayflower Compact: an exercise in representative democracy that stands as the first major political event of American history.Haimann, Alexander T., "5-cent Signing of the Compact", Arago: people, postage the post, National Postal Museum online, viewed March 12, 2014.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% The 2-cent "Walloons landing at Fort Orange" New Netherland was issued on May 1, 1924, to commemorated the 300th anniversary of settlement in New York. Walloons from the south of Belgium had been persecuted for their Protestant beliefs.Brody, Roger S., "Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary Issue", Arago: people, postage & the post, National Postal Museum online, viewed March 13, 2014. 200px|<center>Jamestown, Virginia1907 issue 138px |<center>   Massachusetts Bay Colony,  1930 issue 200px   |<center> Plymouth, Massachusetts1920 issue 210px |<center> Fort Orange, New York1924 issue
Insular territories The U.S. Postal Department also used general issue stamps with the territorial name overprinted, such as PUERTO RICO, CUBA, GUAM, PHILIPPINES or CANAL ZONE. Cuba and the Philippines were granted independence, and the Canal Zone was returned to Panama. 130px|<center> Cuba overprint1899 issue 120px|<center>Guam overprint1899 issue 130px|<center>Philippines overprint1903 issue 130px|<center>Puerto Rico overprint1899 issue 160px|<center>Canal Zone overprint1925 issue The %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% 2-cent "Walloons landing at Fort Orange" New Netherland was issued on May 1, 1924, to commemorated the 300th anniversary of settlement in New York. Walloons from the south of Belgium had been persecuted for their Protestant beliefs.Brody, Roger S., "Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary Issue", Arago: people, postage & the post, National Postal Museum online, viewed March 13, 2014. 200px|<center>Jamestown, Virginia1907 issue 210px |<center> Fort Orange, New York1924 issue The founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, commemorated on its 300th anniversary in 1930 , was the culmination of a process begun ten years earlier with the signing of the Mayflower Compact: an exercise in representative democracy that stands as the first major political event of American history.Haimann, Alexander T., "5-cent Signing of the Compact", Arago: people, postage the post, National Postal Museum online, viewed March 12, 2014. 138px |<center> Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1930 issue 200px |<center> Plymouth, Massachusetts1920 issue
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