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Path to the Revolution: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
August 4, 2023 BY Kwaisi France
Thomas Paine (c. 1736-37 – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.
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Path to the Revolution: Continental Congress
August 4, 2023 BY Kwaisi France
The Continental Congress was one of the organizations, events, or pieces of legislation in the aftermath of the French and Indian War that would lead us to the American Revolution.
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Path to the Revolution: Boston Tea Party
August 4, 2023 BY Kwaisi France
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
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Path to the Revolution: Boston Massacre
August 4, 2023 BY Kwaisi France
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
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Path To The American Revolution: Pontiac’s Rebellion
August 4, 2023 BY Kwaisi France
Pontiac’s War, also known as Pontiac’s Conspiracy or Pontiac’s Rebellion, was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of American Indian tribes. These groups were primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country, and were dissatisfied with British policies in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War (1754–1763).
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Path To The Revolution: Committees of Correspondence
August 4, 2023 BY Kwaisi France
Before Committees of Correspondence, we had the Albany Plan of Union, a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 48) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.
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