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The American Revolution was the first of the "Atlantic Revolutions": followed most notably by the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the Latin American wars of independence. Aftershocks contributed to rebellions in Ireland, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Netherlands. [231] [232] [230]
Year 1371 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. Events. January–December. January – Edward, the Black Prince, gives up the ...
American forces capture the HM schooner Margaretta: Battle of Bunker Hill: June 17, 1775: Massachusetts: British victory: British drive American forces from the Charlestown peninsula near Boston but suffer heavy losses [7] Capture of Turtle Bay Depot* July 20, 1775: New York: American victory: Sons of Liberty capture storehouse and magazine [8]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...
Historians in recent decades have mostly used one of three approaches to analyze the American Revolution: [113] The Atlantic history view places North American events in a broader context, including the French Revolution and Haitian Revolution. It tends to integrate the historiographies of the American Revolution and the British Empire. [114] [115]
The American Revolution includes political, social, and military aspects. The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted
The revolution required American merchants to rebuild connections with global markets, as trade had previously been facilitated under the flag of Great Britain. The high tariffs that were common at the time limited profitability, but high demand for American goods allowed the United States to make up for the economic turmoil of the revolution ...
American Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, Part 1 (Summer, 1967), pp. 147–165. Shapiro, Eugene Paul. Robert Hunter and the land system of colonial New York : education in Massachusetts in the 1790s : the Middlekauff-Birdsall interpretation reconsidered (thesis/dissertation). 1972.