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- 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. - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
28: ** [[Massachusetts Government Act]] ([[May 20]]),
50: *[[1787]] - [[Northwest Ordinance of 1787]]
51: *[[1787]] - [[Constitutional Convention]] in Philadelphia
52: *[[1787]] - [[Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania]] and [[New Jers...
53: ....S. state)|Georgia]], [[Connecticut]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Maryland]], [[South Carolina]], [[New Hamp... - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
5: |valign=center|'''[[1787]]'''
6: ...y between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi...
12: ...octrine]]. Calhoun demands that the North keep quiet about slavery in order to maintain peace.
15: ...denouncing the notion that Americans must choose between liberty and union. "Liberty and Union, now an...
24: ...ionism|abolitionist]] [[American Anti-Slavery Society]] is founded. - 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... - Ohio (19444 bytes)
24: ...dmittanceDate = [[March 1]], [[1803]], declared retroactively on [[August 7]], [[1953]] |
42: ...ring the [[18th century]], the [[France|French]] set up a system of trading posts to control the [[fur...
46: ...he [[American colonies|American colonists]] from settling in Ohio Country. British control of the regi...
48: ... in [[1787]] under the [[Northwest Ordinance]] of 1787, also known as the Freedom Ordinance because for ...
50: ...bered only 45,000 in December [[1801]], Congress determined that the population was growing rapidly an... - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ... [[Europe]]; only in [[Great Britain]] and the [[Netherlands]] did the common people have more freedom...
5: ...ants of [[feudalism]]. Similarly, the peasants covetously eyed the relatively greater prerogatives of ...
7: ...h the French intellectuals; furthermore, contact between the American revolutionaries and the French t...
9: ...nt from those of the bourgeoisie or they did not yet constitute independent classes or class divisions...
13: ...equal system of taxes, by borrowing money, and sometimes by selling noble titles and other privileges;... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
9: ...ist]], guillotined in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'etat|coup]]'' attempt
13: ...rectory|Director]], exiled to [[French Guiana]], returned during the [[First French Empire|Empire]]
17: ...s Billaud-Varenne]] - on [[Committee of Public Safety]], more radical [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespi...
22: ...anted [[Jacques Necker|Necker]] in the royal cabinet
24: ...lle - [[Girondist]] (faction), (Girondists are sometimes designated "Brissotins"), guillotined - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
4: ...ish an authoritative system of [[ethics]], [[aesthetics]], and [[knowledge]]. The intellectual leaders...
6: ...n the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theo...
14: ...Baruch Spinoza|Baruch (Benedictus de) Spinoza]]'s Ethics, which expounded a pantheistic view of the un...
16: ... a coherent system of verifiable predictions and set the tone for much of what would follow in the cen... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
10: ...litical meeting)|Constitutional Convention]] in [[1787]]; all states except [[Rhode Island]] agreed to s...
12: ...13) in [[1788]], but its full implementation was set for [[March 4]], [[1789]]. However, the Senate co...
14: ...of the first half of the 19th century, a balance between North and South existed in the Senate, as the...
16: ... nine cases of bribery in Senate elections arose between [[1866]] and [[1906]]. Many individuals, furt...
33: Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution sets forth three qualifications for senators: each se... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemis...
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
37: *[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemi...
39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966)
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered [... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...rn Massachusetts]] that lasted from [[1786]] to [[1787]]. Many of the rebels, known as [[Shaysites]] or...
3: ...small farmers were forced to sell their land to meet their debts, often less than 1/3 real price.
5: ...tution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-day [[Maine]] were unable to contrib...
7: ... governor, many of the people in Western Massachusetts became restless.
9: ...r, Massachusetts|Worcester]], [[Concord, Massachusetts|Concord]], and elsewhere. After the passage of ... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ... a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. Right: detail of a steamer]]
6: A '''steamboat''' or '''steamship''', sometimes called a '''steamer''', is a boat or vessel t...
15: ...707]] he constructed a paddle-powered boat, but whether it was full-size and steam-powered or not is u...
21: ...steamboat which underwent a successful trial in [[1787]]. The following year a second boat made 50 km (3...
23: ...d boats propelled by cranked paddlewheels placed between the hulls, and he engaged the engineer [[Will... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...lence]] committed at [[sea]], on [[water]], or sometimes on [[shore]]. It does not normally include cr...
4: ... |last=D.Archibugi |url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/piracy-challenges-global-governance |titl...
10: ...their voyages the [[Phoenicia]]ns seem to have sometimes resorted to piracy, and specialized in kidnap...
12: ...ts. After the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them p...
18: ..., and Gothic pirates landed on [[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]]. In the process, the Goths seized enormous boo... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
8: ...f]]. On July 8 they extended the [[Olive Branch Petition]] to the crown as an attempt at reconciliati...
24: *June 30, 1783- Nov. 4, 1783 [[Princeton, New Jersey]]
29: *Nov. 6, 1786- Oct. 30, 1787
30: *Nov. 5, 1787- Oct. 21, 1788
42: *Edmund C. Burnet;''The Continental Congress''; 1941; 1975 reprint,... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[Unit...
4: ...include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improve...
9: ...[[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wif...
11: ...blings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[16...
13: ... for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several more c... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ... ship. Cook rose in the ranks of the merchant fleet but declined the command of his own collier in 17...
12: ...h brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
18: In [[1766]], the Royal Society hired him to travel to the [[Pacific Ocean]] to ...
20: ...ntury earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistake...
22: ...tain [[Arthur Phillip]] arrived with the First Fleet in [[1788]], he felt that Botany Bay was unsuitab... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
9: ...13) in [[1788]], but its full implementation was set for [[March 4]], [[1789]]. The House began work o...
11: During the first half of the nineteenth century, the House was frequently in conflic...
15: ...890s]], during tenure of Republican [[Thomas Brackett Reed]]. "[[Tsar|Czar]] Reed," as he was nickname...
21: ...sion of [[Alaska]] and [[Hawaii]] as states, but returned to 435 four years later.
23: ...r]] for the purpose of reduce the voting power of ethnic minorities. However, gerrymandering for polit...
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