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On the eve of the American Revolution, for example, Americans considered their plight to justify exercise of the right of revolution. Alexander Hamilton justified American resistance as an expression of "the law of nature" redressing violations of "the first principles of civil society" and invasions of "the rights of a whole people". [55]
The Declaration was given little attention in the years immediately following the American Revolution, having served its original purpose in announcing the independence of the United States. [ 6 ] : 87–88 [ 22 ] : 162, 168–169 Early celebrations of Independence Day largely ignored the Declaration, as did early histories of the Revolution.
The Second Continental Congress's Committee of Five drafted the document listing their grievances with the actions and decisions of King George III with regard to the colonies in North America. The Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to adopt and issue the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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]
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution. Oup USA. ISBN 9780199746705. Greene, Jack P.; Pole, J. R., eds. (2003). A Companion to the American Revolution (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 9781405116749. Hattem, Michael D. (2013). "The Historiography of the American Revolution". Journal of the American Revolution. Archived from the original on 2018-08-26
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
The hit FX series Justified made its triumphant return to the airwaves Tuesday via the miniseries, Justified: City Primeval, and the premiere episode offered an unusual reference to another hit ...
In 1965, Bernard Bailyn published a renowned introduction, "The Transforming Radicalism of the American Revolution," to the first volume of the January 1965 Pamphlets of the American Revolution, a series of documents of the Revolutionary era which he edited for the John Harvard Library.