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2 days ago · 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.
- Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party, precursor to the American Revolution in...
- Sugar Act
Sugar Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history, British...
- Intolerable Acts
Because Boston had been the center of resistance to British...
- Key Facts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of John...
- Battle of Brandywine
A summary of the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777....
- Washington Takes Command
American Revolution - Washington, Battles, Independence: On...
- How Did The American Revolution Begin
How did the American Revolution begin? On the ground,...
- What Was The American Revolution
The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of...
- Boston Tea Party
3 days ago · Native American, member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, although the term often connotes only those groups whose original territories were in present-day Canada and the United States. Pre-Columbian Americans used technology and material culture that included fire and the fire drill; the domesticated dog; stone ...
3 days ago · The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1765 to 1783
2 days ago · American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 1] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate states of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.
- 1609 – 1890
2 days ago · The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (in the engrossed version but also the original printing), is the founding document of the United States. On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who had convened at the ...
- June–July 1776
- July 4, 1776; 247 years ago
3 days ago · American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies on the North American continent (as well as some naval conflict). The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution ...
3 days ago · The President stated that any nuclear missile launched from Cuba would be regarded as an attack on the United States by the Soviet Union and demanded that the Soviets remove all of their offensive weapons from Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.
