available to you to research unfamiliar material. Political Diplomatic Military 3) Articles of Confederation French Alliance 1778 Minutemen 1) Declaration of Independence Treaty of Paris‚ 1783 Bunker Hill June 1776 Second Continental Congress Benjamin Franklin‚ ambassador to France No effective British blockade of American Coast 2) Locke and the enlightenment George Washington Saratoga‚ October 1777; led to French Alliance Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or give me Death”
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inventor‚ writer or an artist‚ in some way and some form they have contributed to the culture we have today. George Washington was one of the most important ones in the shaping of the United States of America. As the first U. S president‚ the Continental Army commander and his roles in the government etched him as a major figure in American history. He commanded many battles that were significant in gaining our freedom from the British. He was also a politician that was involved in many of the
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them by creating a number of new laws that were known as the Intolerable Acts. In response to the Intolerable Acts‚ the Frist Continental Congress was formed in 1774. The First Continental Congres included from 12 out of the 13 colonies. They sent out a petition to King George to revoke the Intolerable Acts. King George never gave a response back and the First Continental‚ then‚ established a boycott of British
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Parliament‚ and unequal rights compared to British citizens. The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to discuss their disgust with American treatment by the British. This Continental Congress included many of our nation’s founding fathers‚ including George Washington. A Second Continental Congress was called a year later‚ where The Declaration of Independence was signed. Washington was elected to lead the Continental Army against the prestigious British army. By this time‚ most Americans
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by his father. At the age of 16 Patrick opened a store with his brother but it quickly failed. At 18 he married his first wife‚ Sarah Shelton‚ and attempted a career as a planter which didn’t go well so he returned to shopkeeping and sadly failed a second time. Later he took a job at Hanover Tavern‚ where he worked with his father-in-law and began to study law. Patrick Henry was self taught but he managed to persuade a panel of attorneys that
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In 1775‚ Jefferson was selected to attend the Continental Congress as a representative of the Virginia legislature‚ but before his journey‚ he came up with a theory that involved the “self governance and the rights of people who established habitat in new lands” (Signers of the Declaration of Independence)
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charter of liberty. The revolution signaled by the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4‚ 1776‚ laid down the principles which have been the foundation stones of human progress ever since-the truths which the Continental Congress declared to be self-evident‚ although‚ somehow‚ most of the world had failed to take notice of them. The Declaration established‚ and the world steadily followed the statement‚ that all men are created
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The American Revolution‚ was a political upheaval that occurred from 1765 to 1783. During this event‚ the Thirteen American Colonies resisted the ruling of Great Britain therefore attempting and later succeeding at their independence and the founding of their unification as the United States. In the summer of 1776‚ the Colonies declared their independence‚ developed a rough idea for a democratic government and the British suppressed any rebellions and the idea of the Colonies’ independence. The decisions
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Revolutionary War The American Revolution also known as the Revolutionary War was a war that ended with many sacrificial deaths but‚ it was the beginning of the formation of the United States of America. Neither‚ the United States nor‚ our identity as Americans would have ever existed‚ without this war. Down to 1774‚ the structure of the imperial controversy reinforced the colonists’ provincialism even as it exposed its limits. Americans repeatedly insisted that they sought only the restoration
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John Adams‚ was gone for a good portion of their marriage and they missed each other so they start to to write letters to each other during the time of the Second Continental Congress. .A lot of the letters concerned domestic items‚ the managing of the farm.They wrote about the boys‚ and their education. Sometimes she just felt lonely and told him so in a letter.They also wrote about the home front of the war. Abigail Adams seems to be more of a self-sufficient and self-reliant homemaker than
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