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The Great Awakening was the religious revival that swept through the world in the mid 1700's. In the colonies it was the beginning of Evangelical Calvinism, and was centered mainly in the South. Johnathan Edwards was a Congregational Pastor in Northampton Connecticut. He was extremely outspoken for justification by faith alone. In essence it was God's will that you did things a certain way.The Zenger Trial was the first victory for The Freedom of the Press. It was a libel suit brought against a printer by the name of John Peter Zenger by the then Governor of New York William Cosby. Alexander Hamilton was Zenger's lawyer he argued that the people themselves were intelligent enough to determine what was real and what was false. The jury acquitted Zenger because they said that all of his information was based on truths not lies. "Common Sense" was an article written by Thomas Paine in 1776. If not for Zenger's Trials "Common Sense" would have received the same treatment as Zenger's New York Weekly Journal had. The Hanover Kings were a royal bloodline in England. The first one was George I. During the time of the American Revolution George II was fighting with The House Of Burgesses about his right to power. These domestic proble
The Townsend Duties which taxed lead, tea, paper, glass, & paint. This battle forced General Conrwallis to surrender and ended the fighting. This allowed for the Revolution to build and eventually take place. Native Americans and Slaves were conscripted to fight with the British Army against the Revolutionaries. Saratoga was the turning point in the battle for independence in America. General Gage was a British General in Massachusetts at the beginning of the revolutionary war. The Declaratory Act was Parliaments reassertion that it could tax any one of its colonies anywhere in the world however they saw fit. His troops were returned under the condition that they would be sent back to England and not fight in the war. Approximately 1/3 of all the colonists were considered loyalists to the British Crown at this time. Lord North took office in the 1770's. They asserted the rights that they believed that they had over the American colonies. Thus ending the French and Indian War. This battle slowed Lord Cornwallis' attack of North Carolina. He was also the general who ordered the march on Lexington & Concord in April of 1775, at this battle the first shot in the war for independence was fired this shot became known as the shot heard round the world.
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