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	American Revolution - MSN Encarta
		It was made up of two related events: the American War of Independence (1775-1783) and the formation of the American government as laid out by the Constitution of the United States in 1787.
		Finally, a decade of conflicts between the British government and the colonists, beginning with the Stamp Act crisis in 1765, led to the outbreak of war in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
		The proportion of the colonists who were of English culture and ancestry steadily declined during the 1700s as the result of the arrival, by forced or voluntary migration, of new racial and ethnic groups.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569964/American_Revolution.html (1197 words)

	The American Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When North Carolina and Virginia empowered their delegates to vote for American independence, Virginian Richard Henry Lee offered a resolution stating that the colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." A committee was appointed to draft a declaration of independence, and Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write it.
		The Loyalists soon were defeated, and Americans went on to destroy many Native American villages whose residents were fighting on the side of the British.
		American finances were in such dire straits that Congress saw the need for a separate department of finance.
	theamericanrevolution.org /tline.asp (3447 words)

	Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 - America During the Age of ...
		American colonists responded to the Sugar Act and the Currency Act with protest.
		The British further angered American colonists with the Quartering Act, which required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops.
		American colonists responded to Parliament's acts with organized protest.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/continental/timeline.html (387 words)

	Why Did The American Colonists Revolt?
		The collection of such customs duties was in fact officially meant to have been in practice since 1733[10], and was seen simply as the natural state of affairs in the British Parliament, where the measure encountered little opposition.
		Although the Americans still thought of themselves as loyal British, they were slowly moving away from the idea of being loyal British subjects, because at the heart of their resistance was the desire for the continuation of almost total self-government.
		Though Parliament was subsequently quiet for 3 years, the mood in the American towns had changed to one of tension and imminent confrontation, and this soon spread to the countryside.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~mert2049/history/ash-uscolonists.shtml (3039 words)

	The End of Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To most colonists, a subject's right to be heard by his rulers was a basic one; it was part of the "natural law" philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment.
		Although Americans complained about the stream of British acts and regulations after 1759, they now agreed that the constitutional issue of taxation posed the gravest threat of all to their freedom as individuals.
		Americans felt confident that Locke would have approved when they wrote in almost countless documents and petitions that Englishmen--in England, in Virginia, or anywhere else--could be taxed only by their own directly elected representatives.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/Comp.htm (1120 words)

	The American Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Relations between colonists and the British soldiers were strained and frequently violent; in the days preceding that Sunday there were numerous tavern brawls and street fights between colonists and British soldiers and supporters—in one incident, three British soldiers were beaten and driven out of the town, but returned later with reinforcements.
		Even though African Americans were instrumental in the early battles, such as the Battle of Breed's Hill, (Bunker Hill), in 1775, George Washington issued a decree that forbid any African American, free or slave, to serve in the army.
		This crucial participation of African Americans in the war was the direct cause of the emancipation movements in the northern colonies beginning in 1777.
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /~dee/AMERICA/REV.HTM (2086 words)

	PERSPECTIVE on the FRENCH-AMERICAN ALLIANCE
		However, without the French military presence, the American colonists felt confident in dealing with the Indians on their own and were reluctant to support the continued expense of deployed English forces overseas.
		Wearing his American general's uniform, LaFayette reported to Versailles 29 February for a formal ‘farewell audience' before the king and queen, as he prepared to return to join the American ranks and to report to Washington of the pending French military expedition.
		American myth likes to portray him as 'one of the best British generals of the war' -- it is always good to have beaten 'the best'.
	xenophongroup.com /mcjoynt/allianc2.htm (4712 words)

	Indians and the American Revolution
		During the period 1763 to 1775, a series of boundaries between the colonists and the Indians of the interior were created from Lake Ontario to Florida, confirming in the minds of Indians (and of many colonists) the belief that the Indian country was closed to speculation and settlement by the increasingly aggressive colonists.
		The American case was not persuasive and, in May 1776, a delegation from the north composed of Shawnees, Delawares, and Mohawks, arrived among the Cherokees and convinced them to take up the tomahawk against the encroaching Americans.
		Attempts by American forces to impose their will on the Indians confirmed the fact that the Indians had not been conquered by the Americans during the Revolution, for these attempts were repeatedly frustrated.
	www.americanrevolution.org /ind1.html (6539 words)

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		The American Revolution is an ideal illustration of radical events that resulted in a united nation, free from monarchical society where the people shared the same ideals and governed the land.
		Throughout the years, among the American colonists, was instilled the idea that they thought of the same aspirations, that they must perceive themselves as a united nation with a common goal towards individual rights and freedoms.
		Colonists understood that a citizen's army was in accord with the doctrines of independence and the independence for which they struggled.
	plaza.ufl.edu /nemesis7/ely.doc (980 words)

	Colonial Williamsburg -- Colonial History
		The evolution of a separate American identity took place in towns like Williamsburg under British rule during the colonial era, and it spread as a unifying national force with the onset of the Revolution.
		It was clear to both the colonists and the settlement's private investors back in England that Virginia's future lay in the export of the lucrative crop to Europe.
		The once loyal colonists were now Americans, faced with the responsibility of leading their nation into the future.
	www.americanparknetwork.com /parkinfo/cw/history (2182 words)

	The History Place - Prelude to Revolution
		The American colonists quickly unite in opposition, led by the most influential segments of colonial society - lawyers, publishers, land owners, ship builders and merchants - who are most affected by the Act, which is scheduled to go into effect on November 1.
		Colonists from Providence row out to the schooner and attack it, set the British crew ashore, then burn the ship.
		The Quebec Act greatly upsets American colonists by extending the southern boundary of Canada into territories claimed by Massachusetts, Connecticut and Virginia.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm (2564 words)

	The American Revolution--Essays
		Americans modeled their political institutions on British institutions; they strove to imitate British social practices; they depended on the British to buy their raw materials, extend them credit, and protect their ships.
		Over the course of the eighteenth century, American colonists who once assumed they too were Britons and thus had a stake in the welfare and achievements of Britain found instead that they were considered to be peripheral outsiders, second-class citizens in an empire they themselves had been fundamental in forming.
		As contact and conflict increased between the colonists and the British over the course of the 1760s and 70s, the once willing, even enthusiastic, subjects of the first British empire became convinced that they had more in common with each other than they did with their brethren on the other side of Atlantic.
	revolution.h-net.msu.edu /essays/lively.html (1059 words)

	IMA Hero: Reading Program American Revolution
		True or False: The American Revolution was fought mainly between the American colonies and Britain.
		During the American Revolution, "committees of safety" were formed to protect the riders from British attack or capture.
		He is also called the "grandfather of American invention." He experimented with electricity, and he invented bifocals, the Pennsylvania Fireplace (or Franklin Stove), the lightning rod, and the odometer.
	www.imahero.com /readingprogram/americanrev.html (3400 words)

	The American Enlightenment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The American Enlightenment, which is generally dated from the Glorious Revolution of 1688, was, however, an uneven affair.
		The colonists instantly saw the applicability of the Revolution to their situation, and began a series of revolts in 1689.
		The English, for their part, did not see the connection between their revolution and the American reassertion of power over their affairs; most, in fact, were appalled by the 1689 revolutions.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/AMERICA/ENLIGHT.HTM (871 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / The Real First World War and the Making of America
		The traditional narrative of American history treats the “colonial period” as a tale of maturation that begins with the founding of Virginia and Massachusetts and culminates in the Revolution.
		Britain’s colonists continued to enlist in numbers that suggest they had come to believe they were full partners in the creation of a new British empire that would be the greatest since Rome.
		Britain’s American colonists had come to believe they were members of a transatlantic community bound together by common allegiance, interests, laws, and rights.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/2005/6/2005_6_75.shtml (3692 words)

	Colonial America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The colonists who came to the New World were by no means a homogeneous band, but they came from a variety of different social and religious groups who settled in different locations on the seaboard.
		Many Americans at the time saw the colonies' systems of governance as modeled after the British constitution of the time, with the king corresponding to the governor, the House of Commons to the colonial assembly, and the House of Lords to the Governor's council.
		In the American colonies, Scots-Irish focused on mixed-farming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonial_America (8029 words)

	American Revolution
		American colonists protested against the tax on tea (The Tea Act).
		Henry is famouns for urging American colonists to break away from England, even if that meant fighting.
		American troops, under the command of George Washington, endured a bitter winter cold.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch634/hays/amrv.html (413 words)

	Primary Source Documents
		Magna Carta (1215) One of the American colonists' most revered documents, the Magna Carta established the principle that no one, not even the king or a lawmaker, is above the law of God.
		Intentions of the SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) (1740) The desire of this group to land an Anglican Bishop in the American colonies ignited the American Revolution.
		In this defense of the American cause in response to an Anglican minister's criticism of the revolution, Hamilton states that laws, rights, and political principles are all based in the existence and law of God.
	www.constitution.org /primarysources/primarysources.html (9393 words)

	The American Revolution
		France surrenders all of its North American possessions east of the Mississippi to Britain.
		This is the first direct tax on the American colonists and is hotly resisted.
		Committees of Correspondence are established throughout the colonies to coordinate American response to British colonial policy.
	www.nps.gov /revwar/about_the_revolution/timeline_of_events.html (277 words)

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		The American colonists were angry about numerous taxes issued by the British king.
		In 1776, the colonists issued the Declaration of Independence, a document written by Thomas Jefferson that outlined America's intention to become a new country separate from England.
		Colonists were angry about having to pay so many taxes.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /amcomp12.htm (260 words)

	American Religions
		Excerpt from 1813 letter of John Adams to Thomas Jefferson arguing that liberty depended on general principles that transcended sectarian differences [posted by American Colonists' Library].
		Jerald Brauer examines the legacy of Puritanism and Revivalism; Sidney Mead examines the relationship of the Enlightenment and the established church; and Robert Bellah reviews the rise of civil religion.
		Library of Congress cyber-exhibit paints an epic panorama of the complex role of religion in bringing refugees to America and shaping churches, the revolutionary war, congress, state and federal governments, and American society through the first half of the 19th c.
	virtualreligion.net /vri/america2.html (950 words)

	The Declaration of Independence and Your Own Rights (lesson-plan)
		It reflected the resentment of American colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament to which they had elected no representatives, and it became an anti-British slogan before the American Revolution.
		Official acts that colonists considered infringements upon their rights had previously led to the Stamp Act Congress (1765) and to the First Continental Congress (1774), but these were predominantly conservative assemblies that sought redress from the crown and reconciliation, not independence.
		The document states that colonial patience had achieved nothing and that therefore the colonists found themselves forced to declare their independence.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /american-revolution/lesson-plan/1717.html (753 words)

	Texas Treasures - Stephen F. Austin - Texas State Library
		In the meantime, his father had developed a new venture, a plan to settle American colonists in Spanish Texas.
		He also took care of serious legal issues, including the status of American slaves on Mexican soil, protection of settlers from debts left behind in the U.S., and establishing trade with the United States.
		At the same time, he had to deal with settlers, many of whom refused to pay their fees to the empresario to help defray the expenses of the colony.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /treasures/giants/austin/austin-01.html (1357 words)

	Sons of the American Colonists in the State of Wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Membership is open to any American man of eighteen years of age and of good character and reputation.
		Membership is open to any American man, of eighteen years of age and of good moral character and reputation.
		Since there is a great variety of services used to determine a qualifying ancestor for membership in The Sons of the American Colonists, the number of surnames of qualifying ancestors must be very large.
	my.execpc.com /~drg/wisac.html (522 words)

	The Struggle for American Independence.
		After several boatloads of men attacked a grounded British customs schooner near Providence, Rhode Island, the royal governor offered a reward for the discovery of the men, planning to send them to England for trial.
		Thomas Paine moved many to the cause of independence with his pamphlet titled "Common Sense." In a direct, simple style, he cried out against King George III and the monarchical form of government.
		The inability of Congress to regulate commerce on a national scale led to the formation of a committee dedicated to appealing to the states to grant Congress enlarged powers over commerce.
	www.twilightbridge.com /hobbies/festivals/independence/timeline.htm (4289 words)

	Amazon.com: The Colonists (American Family Portrait, Book 2): Books: Jack Cavanaugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In "The Colonists" it follows the lives of three young adults~great-great-great, etc grandchildren of Drew Morgan.
		Phillip is young and determined to find the family Bible that belonged to Drew, Patricia, also young and fiercely independent and Jared, the youngest and rebelious, who takes chances and risks.
		After the death of their father Phillip, Priscilla, and Jared are all crossed by the evil Daniel Cole, who has the rest of Boston convinced that he is an honorable merchant.
	www.amazon.com /Colonists-American-Family-Portrait-Book/dp/1564763463 (1320 words)

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