Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The official History of the Washington State Legislature states "As had been the case in 1882, in Thurston County, Democrats and anti-administration Republicans joined to form the People’s Party". [13] However a Washington local newspaper in 1865 listed the People's Party as one of the main competing parties in an election. [17]
The proclamation line was not intended to be a permanent boundary between the colonists and Native American lands but rather a temporary boundary that could be extended further west in an orderly, lawful manner. [12] [13] It was also not designed as an uncrossable boundary; people could cross the line, but not settle past it. [14]
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated the ultimately successful war for independence (the American Revolutionary War) against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Delegates from the North Carolina counties of Washington, Sullivan, Spencer (now Hawkins) and Greene — all in present-day Tennessee — convened in the town of Jonesborough and declared the lands the State of Frankland, independent of North Carolina. A constitution modeled on that of North Carolina was adopted with few changes, and the state ...
2020 - January 21: Washington reports the United States' first case of COVID-19. Washington would record the nation's first death from the disease the following month. 2021 - June & July: The 2021 Western North America heat wave kills 91 people in Washington, making it the state's second deadliest natural disaster on record. [26]
Valley Forge was the winter encampment of the Continental Army, under the command of George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War.The Valley Forge encampment lasted six months, from December 19, 1777, to June 19, 1778.
That appeal was unsuccessful, leading delegates from the colonies to convene the Second Continental Congress, also held in Philadelphia, the following May, shortly after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, to organize the defense of the colonies as the American Revolutionary War.
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.