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  2. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Date: 1765 to 1783: Location: Thirteen Colonies (1765–1775) United Colonies (1775–1781) United States (1781–1783) Outcome: Independence of the United States of America from Great Britain

  3. Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. 13 Vendémiaire - Wikipedia

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    The social reforms of the French Revolution had been well received by the majority of the populace of France, but the Revolution's strongly anti-Catholic stance had created anti-Republican sympathies in many Roman Catholics. In March 1793, this sentiment boiled over into an armed insurrection in the fiercely Catholic Vendée region of western ...

  5. Timeline of the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Strauss–Howe generational theory - Wikipedia

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    In 1993, Charles Laurence at the London Daily Telegraph wrote that, in 13th Gen, Strauss and Howe offered this youth generation "a relatively neutral definition as the 13th American generation from the Founding Fathers,". [97] According to Alexander Ferron's review in Eye Magazine, "13th Gen is best read as the work of two top-level historians ...

  7. People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada) - Wikipedia

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    In Grenada, the revolution is referred to as the March 13th Revolution of 1979 [2] or simply as “The Revolution”. The government suspended the constitution and ruled by decree until a factional conflict broke out, culminating in an invasion by the United States on 25 October 1983.

  8. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The documentary film, 13th, explores the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States." [36] Its title alludes to the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as a punishment for a crime. The film asserts ...

  9. History of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Convention did not start with national powers from scratch, it began with the powers already vested in the Congress of the Confederation with control of the military, international relations and commerce. [r] The Constitution added ten more. Five were minor relative to power sharing, including business and manufacturing protections.