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Há 5 dias · The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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Há 3 dias · John Adams (Massachusetts): A lawyer and political theorist, Adams was a vocal advocate for independence and later served as the second President of the United States. Thomas Jefferson (Virginia): A planter, lawyer, and philosopher, Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration due to his eloquent writing style and political acumen.
Há 1 dia · Signers of the Declaration of Independence (1776), Articles of Confederation (1781), and United States Constitution (1789) Leader(s) John Adams; Samuel Adams; Benjamin Franklin; Alexander Hamilton; John Hancock; John Jay; Thomas Jefferson; Richard Henry Lee; Robert R. Livingston; James Madison; George Mason; Robert Morris; Peyton ...
Há 3 dias · John Hancock, President of the Congress and Charles Thomson, the secretary, signed the document. July 4, 1776 is officially recognized as the birth of America. The Declaration of Independence introduced a fundamental change in the view of government.
Há 3 dias · The Declaration embodied the political philosophies of liberalism and republicanism, rejected monarchy and aristocracy, and famously proclaimed that "all men are created equal". With the issuance of the Declaration of Independence, each colony began operating as independent and autonomous states.
Há 1 dia · Loyalist John Singleton Copley moved to England on the eve of the Revolution, but before he decamped he left impressive portraits of prominent patriots (John Hancock, Samuel Adams). Charles Willson Peale and his artistic children filled a family-run institution, the Philadelphia Museum, with portraits of revolutionary figures, as well as stuffed and skeletal animals.
Há 2 dias · The Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them ...
