This act marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War, a major armed conflict that would last until 1783. The result was the formation of the United States of America.The American Civil War Historical Events in America American Wars Timeline Lesson Summary Register to view this lesson Are you ...
When the United States entered World War I, it created one of the most confident... Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Examine the conflict between U.S. President Wilson and Congress in the aftermath of World War I The United States quickly became known as formidable in battle as wel...
War I.Emigration, particularly toCanada,Australia, andNew Zealand(“Old Commonwealth” countries), continued at a high rate after the war until 1930, when unfavourable economic conditions in theBritish Empireand in theUnited Statesreversed the movement. During the same years, there also was an ...
The Revolutionary War was expensive for all the countries involved. While the unification of the colonies into the United States also unified their economies, it also caused an economic downturn due to the collapse of trade with Britain. Before the country was officially established, goods from oth...
"County Committees of Safety." Committees of Saftey [COS] is the process our Founding Fathers used to have "Government by Consent" in the colonies. It is also the process our Founding Fathers used to govern as they fought the revolutionary war and establish the United States of America, afte...
1752 Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin. 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War. 1770 Boston Massacre: Five Amer...
and lecturer for the growing abolitionist movement. By 1840, abolitionists in Britain and the United States developed large, complex propaganda campaigns against slavery. As the nation split between Southern slave and Northern free states before the Civil War, theUnderground Railroadspirited thousands of...
of the Woods, Minnesota 49°23′04.1″N 95°9′12.2″W / 49.384472°N 95.153389°W / 49.384472; -95.153389 (Northwest Angle) — northernmost point in the 48 contiguous states (because of incomplete information at the time of the Treaty of Paris (1783) settling the American Revolutionary...
argument for independence from Great Britain. His pamphlet convinced many colonists and founding fathers of the wisdom of open rebellion against the British if necessary. Further, he published another pamphlet called The Crisis during the Revolutionary War that helped spur on the soldiers to fight....
argument for independence from Great Britain. His pamphlet convinced many colonists and founding fathers of the wisdom of open rebellion against the British if necessary. Further, he published another pamphlet called The Crisis during the Revolutionary War that helped spur on the soldiers to fight....