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- Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1760]] to [[1789]]'''.
28: ** [[Massachusetts Government Act]] ([[May 20]]),
53: ....S. state)|Georgia]], [[Connecticut]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Maryland]], [[South Carolina]], [[New Hamp...
54: *[[1789]] - [[Constitution]] ratified
55: *[[1789]] - [[George Washington]] becomes President - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...r a dozen years of escalating political conflict between the colonies and the British Parliament, mark...
7: ... the Atlantic Coast of [[North America]], began meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Congress i...
11: ...t United States with a great wilderness empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, ...
13: ... federation of States, without fully clarifying whether the United States was to be a nation-state or ...
15: ...nsider revising the Articles. That Convention, meeting in Philadelphia, chose, instead, to write a Co...
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- List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
48: ...Heinrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich]] (1789-1848)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...tat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been ...
11: ...ine issued a charter that: allowed the gentry to petition the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles...
13: ...y. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the modernization of agric...
16: ...the [[Hermitage Museum]], [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].]]
17: ...[ruble]]s to the creation of a "Northern Accord" between Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marria...
2: '''Marie-Antoinette''', Queen of [[France]] and Archduchess of [[Au...
4: ...cial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
7: ...he Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most bri...
9: ...ess's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...es. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world,...
12: ...stitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to become President. The president must ...
14: ... remove or amend this requirement, but none have yet been successful.
16: ...orge W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
21: ...ary. Since 1933, with the ratification of [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Amen... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
6: | date1=[[April 30]], [[1789]]
19: ...ited States]] under the [[U.S. Constitution]]. ([[1789]]–[[1797|97]]). He also served as President...
21: ...shed power even though some others wanted him to retain that power for life (as [[monarch]]s and [[dic...
26: ...743]]) and Mary Ball ([[1708]] - [[August 25]], [[1789]]) were of [[England|English]] descent. He spent ...
33: ...and showed coolness under fire in organizing the retreat. In Virginia, Washington was acclaimed as a h... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
18: ...]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the first ([[1789]]–[[1797]]) [[Vice President of the United ...
22: ...grated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boy...
24: ... [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
23: ...& Mary]] — where he was a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] — before founding his own...
25: ...]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare th...
27: ...nitive book on the original buildings, or [http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/grizzard Academical Vil...
29: ...ght|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]]
30: ...mon practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. Instead, he cut a wedge out of th... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
18: ...ist of people known as the father or mother of something|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]...
21: ...[[1769]], he left the plantation to attend [[Princeton University]] (it was called the ''College of Ne...
35: ...Congress; in [[1801]] he became Jefferson's [[Secretary of State]].
42: === Cabinet ===
59: ...ign="left"|[[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]||align="left"|'''[[Robert Smith (U.... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: (poetically) '''Columbia'''—is a [[democracy|demo...
9: national_motto = <br>''[[E Pluribus Unum]]'' ([[1789]]–present)<br>([[Latin]]: "Out of Many, One...
35: ...Constitution|'''Constitution''']]<br> - completed<br> - ratified<br> - effective|
37: ...[1787]]<br>[[May 23]], [[1788]]<br>[[March 4]], [[1789]]|
41: utc_offset = -5 to -10 | - U.S. state (14432 bytes)
1: ...cially favor the term ''commonwealth'') which, together with the [[District of Columbia]], form the [[...
3: ...sovereign powers to the federal government while retaining the remainder for itself. The tasks of edu...
5: ...the Constitution has been amended, and the interpretation and application of its provisions have chang...
38: ...>Mass.<td>[[Massachusetts]]<td>[[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]</tr>
74: For a complete list of non-state dependent areas and other terr... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
25: AdmittanceDate = [[November 21]], [[1789]] |
44: ... late [[seventeenth century]], several permanent settlements had taken hold in the Carolina territory,...
46: ...ille]] in the east to [[Bethania, North Carolina|Bethania]] (northwest of [[Winston-Salem, North Carol...
48: ...ate. Approximately 40,000 of those troops never returned home, dead of battlefield wounds, disease an...
50: ...h the creation of the [[Research Triangle Park]] between [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] and [[Dur... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
39: ...lows, most notably from [[Kilauea|Kīlauea]]. Ethnically, it is the only state that does not have ...
46: ...ehameha III meaning, "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness." It was also the motto of...
51: Nineteen islands and atolls extending across a distance...
56: ...ount Waialeale|Mount Waiʻaleʻale]] the wettest place on earth; it averages 11.7 m (460 in) o...
64: .... Local chiefs called [[alii|alii]] ruled their settlements and fought to extend their sway and defen... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
41: ...]]. The new colony was named in honour of [[Henrietta Maria]], Queen Consort of Charles I.
43: ... as it was [[Christianity|Christian]]), and is sometimes seen as a precursor to the [[First Amendment]...
45: ...Mason-Dixon line]] which would form the boundary between their two colonies.
47: ... revolted against the proprietary government and set up a new government that outlawed both Catholicis...
55: ...ion]]. A [[constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]] was held during 1... - Washington (20186 bytes)
45: ...d the land and missionaries such as the Whitmans settled there.
47: ...as by [[Spain|Spanish]] Captain [[Don Bruno de Heceta]] in [[1775]] on board the ''Santiago'', part of...
49: ...]], but the straits would not be explored until [[1789]] by Captain [[Charles W. Barkley]]. Further expl...
55: ...the [[Northern Pacific]] railroad line reached Puget Sound, linking the region to the other states. Du...
59: ...e]] produced dense forests and the ports along Puget Sound prospered from the manufacturing and shippi... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...amplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, ...
38: ...ted by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provin...
48: ...rest in meadow, uplands, lakes, ponds and swampy wetlands.
50: ...areas of the state. Annual [[snow]]fall averages between 60 to 100 inches depending on elevation, givi...
57: ...95 feet. The state's average elevation is 1,000 feet.]] - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
39: ...n by the Dutch in 1654 and incorporated into New Netherland.
41: ...h Civil War]]: [[George Carteret|Sir George Carteret]] and [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stra...
43: ... English Crown [[George Carteret|Sir George Carteret]], Jersey's Royalist Governor, was gifted a large...
45: ...es were united under a royal, rather than a proprietary, governor.
57: ...er [[Charles Cornwallis]] at the [[Battle of Princeton]]. - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
2: ...Image:us flag large Betsy Ross.png|right|thumb|[[Betsy Ross]] purportedly sewed the first [[Flag of th...
14: ...Province of Massachusetts Bay]], later [[Massachusetts]] and [[Maine]]
58: ...tch colony as of 1776; [[British Honduras]], had settlements, but "unofficial" until at least a couple...
63: ...can Revolution|History of the United States (1776-1789): Independence and the American Revolution]] - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
5: ''For details, see the main [[Pre-Colonial America]] articl...
7: ... dominated the area until the influx of European settlers in the early [[17th century]].
10: ''For details, see the main [[Colonial America]] article.''
14: ==History of the United States (1776-1789)==
15: ...see the main [[History of the United States (1776-1789)]] article.'' - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: .... Most current interpretations fall somewhere in between these two positions.
7: ...riefly summarize the political, social, economic, etc. situations before the revolution, and the trend...
16: ...ywhere. Increased publication and communications between like-minded people opened new areas to questi...
28: ...cement became the practice. In [[1761]], Massachusetts lawyer [[James Otis]] argued that the writs vio...
30: ...ction. Grenville's policies were bringing them together.
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