their own money, which was worthless in other states. Many states even wrote their own state constitutions. These constitutions consisted of political ideas that provided equality and freedom. Thus the Articles of Confederation was the United States’ first constitution was created in order to hold the states of the new nation together
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The colonists showed unity and left the British with a question of what will they do next. On September of 1774, The First Continental Congress defended itself from Britain. The colonies start military training showing the Britain’s that there were ready of war to gain freedom. The Intolerable Acts were important because it gave the colonies that last bight of need to react to the
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George Washington was the first President of the United States of America, and general of the revolutionary war. George was a Virginia planter, surveyor, and land speculator for 15 years, before he got into conventional armies. Despite having small practical experience in handling large, conventional armies, Washington proved to be a capable and resilient leader of the American military forces during the war. In July of 1775, George Washington accompanied Braddock on an expedition and served as
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States’ first flag has always seemed simple enough. The story tells of Betsy Ross designing and sewing the flag for Washington that would fly proudly in the wind of the newly born country. There is only one problem with this story though. It never mentions the man who deserves the credit for creating the first template of the United States flag. Although Betsy
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Every year the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy meet in the inaugural Army-Navy Game. However, this is where their respective similarities end. From missions, to rank and command structure, to their establishments during the colonial days of our country, there are not two more different services within the Department of Defense. The United States Air Force was once part of the Army, as the Army Air Corps, separating to their own service after World War Two. The
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The first person I think had a big impact on the American Revolution is George Washington. I think this because he didn't want to be the leaders of the Patriots but he felt obligated as a citizen and that he owed the Patriots to do that much. So in the Summer of 1775 Congress ordered George Washington leader of the Continental Army. All though Washington lost more battles then won he applied great determination and winning strategies. Unlike the win in Boston the battle of New York almost ruined
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Britain and America fueled the desires for acceptance by the British elite. They wanted America to be more like London with their wealth and overflowing production of goods. The Great Awakening was a huge religious revival in colonial America striking first in the Middle colonies and New England in the 1740’s and then spreading to the southern colonies. The Great Awakening affected everyone. Whitefield, an Anglican minister came to the colonies and revivals and mass conversions often followed his appearance
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taxes on colonists > the salty war veteran colonists unhappy • Grenville taxes- Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act • Proclamation of 1763- called for no expansion after colonists had just fought for land for 9 years • Colonists respond > Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, etc > British back off • (British and colonist tension due to presence of British troops in the colonies who took low wage jobs, get drunk, “date your sister” > Boston Massacre - colonists use propaganda which stirs up more colonial
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education in a school followed by a Latin school. He went to Harvard College when he was 15 years of age. He graduated college in the year of 1755. Then he studied law with a famous local lawyer in Worcester. He opened his own office in 1755, but in the first year, the business was really bad. He only had one case and he didn’t win that case. But it will be different in the next few years. When it got better, he began to court Abigail Smith. She is the daughter of a Congregational minister. They got along
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anti-British group that called colonist to oppose the Tories, or Loyalist. They didn’t get as far as to get independence from Britain, but they did proclaim the right of “no taxation without representation.” They agreed to meet up again at the Second Continental Congress to discuss further action, but before that could happen violence already broke out. In April 1775, the outbreak of war between the British authority and colonist known as the American Revolution occurred in Lexington and Concord,
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