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20 hours ago · Politics portal. v. t. e. The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
20 hours ago · Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents, and one of the architects of the principles of ...
20 hours ago · A. Now that Pennsylvania attracted so many settlers, Carolina was desperate for laborers and began a vast Indian slave trade. B. The led the Puritan authorities in Massachusetts to adopt religious toleration in order to compete with Pennsylvania for colonists. C.
20 hours ago · An Act to prohibit the excessive distilling of Spirits and Low Wines from Corne and against the Exporting of Beer and Ale and to prevent Frauds in Distillers. (Repealed by Spirits Act 1880 ( 43 & 44 Vict. c. 24)) Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Duties Act 1698 (repealed) 10 Will.
20 hours ago · This term continued in usage for over a century before the earliest known American reference appeared in a Maryland affidavit in 1689–90. [citation needed] Scotch-Irish, according to James Leyburn, "is an Americanism, generally unknown in Scotland and Ireland, and rarely used by British historians".
20 hours ago · Early history. Phalaris, who from c. 570 to 554 BCE ruled Greek-settled Agrigento in Sicily as a tyrant, was reported to have consumed suckling babies. During the Peloponnesian War (5th century BCE), the Athenian siege of the Corinthian colony of Potidaea reduced its inhabitants to cannibalism, according to the Athenian historian Thucydides.
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20 hours ago · Duverger's law certainly seems borne out in the history of British parliamentary politics. Before World War I, the United Kingdom had a true two-party system: the main parties were the Tories (which became the Conservative Party ) and the Whigs (which became the Liberal Party ), though after Catholic Emancipation there was also a substantial Irish Parliamentary Party .
