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Há 3 dias · States and territories of the United States at the time of the Constitutional Convention. During the American Revolution, the 13 American states replaced their colonial governments with republican constitutions based on the principle of separation of powers, organizing government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Há 1 dia · The United States is a country in North America that is a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 conterminous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of Hawaii, in the mid-Pacific Ocean.
Há 5 dias · The American Revolution was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies that began in 1775 and ended with a peace treaty in 1783. The colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America.
- The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britai...
- On the ground, fighting in the American Revolution began with the skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials on April 19, 1775, f...
- The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make t...
- Until early in 1778, the American Revolution was a civil war within the British Empire, but it became an international war as France (in 1778) and...
- In the early stages of the rebellion by the American colonists, most of them still saw themselves as English subjects who were being denied their r...
Há 2 dias · By the mid-18th century South Carolina would become the wealthiest British colony in mainland North America, but in recent years scholars long familiar with its distinctive plantation system have turned more attention to these earlier, formative decades.
Há 4 dias · Frank Lloyd Wright, architect and writer, an abundantly creative master of American architecture. His ‘Prairie style’ became the basis of 20th-century residential design in the United States. Some of his best-known works included Unity Temple, Fallingwater, and the Guggenheim Museum.
Há 5 dias · Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History by James Ciment. Call Number: E162 C68 2006. ISBN: 0765680653. "major thematic essays, hundreds of easy-to-reference entries, thematic and regional chronologies, numerous primary documents, plus hundreds of illustrations"
Há 2 dias · Colonial criminal punishments, jails, and workhouses. The "Old Gaol [Jail]" in Barnstable, Massachusetts, built in 1690 and operated until 1820, is today the oldest wooden jail in the United States of America. The jail was built in 1690 by order of Plimouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony Courts.
