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During the American Revolutionary War, the British implemented several policies that allowed fugitive slaves fleeing from American enslavers to find refuge within British lines. Writing in response to these policies, Paine wrote in Common Sense that Britain "hath stirred up the Indians and the Negroes to destroy us". [ 130 ]
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for ...
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated the ultimately successful war for independence (the American Revolutionary War) against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010) excerpt and text search; Raphael, Ray. A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence (2002). Roberts, Cokie. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation (2005).
One came with a rare American win on the Revolutionary War battlefield in Saratoga, New York. The other ace would be handed over to France in the form of a constitution, the Articles of ...
Stephen Lucas called the Declaration of Independence "one of the best-known sentences in the English language." [7] Historian Joseph Ellis wrote that it contains "the most potent and consequential words in American history". [8] The passage came to represent a moral standard to which the United States should strive.
Netflix's "American Primeval" is inspired by the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The massacre is depicted in episode 1 and is the inciting incident for the main characters' journey.
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 [a] – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency.