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After the Congress recommended that colonies form their own governments, the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas J...

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In late 1775 the colonial conflict with the British still looked like a civil war, not a war aiming to separate nations; however...

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Breed’s Hill in Charlestown was the primary locus of combat in the misleadingly named Battle of Bunker Hill, which was part of t...

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Convinced that war with Great Britain was inevitable, Virginian Patrick Henry defended strong resolutions for equipping the Virg...

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A series of four acts, the Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be...

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Like the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged B...