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  2. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Date: 1765 to 1783: Location: Thirteen Colonies (1765–1775) United Colonies (1775–1781) United States (1781–1783) Outcome: Independence of the United States of America from Great Britain

  3. Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    Historians in recent decades have mostly used one of three approaches to analyze the American Revolution: [113] The Atlantic history view places North American events in a broader context, including the French Revolution and Haitian Revolution. It tends to integrate the historiographies of the American Revolution and the British Empire. [114] [115]

  4. 13 Vendémiaire - Wikipedia

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    13 Vendémiaire, Year 4 in the French Republican Calendar (5 October 1795 in the Gregorian calendar), is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris.

  5. Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    The American Revolution (1765–1783) was a dispute over the British Parliament's right to enact domestic legislation for the American colonies. The British government's position was that Parliament's authority was unlimited, while the American position was that colonial legislatures were coequal with Parliament and outside of its jurisdiction.

  6. Wars of Scottish Independence - Wikipedia

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    The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late 13th and 14th centuries. The First War (1296–1328) began with the English invasion of Scotland in 1296 and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton in 1328.

  7. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The documentary film, 13th, explores the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States." [36] Its title alludes to the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as a punishment for a crime. The film asserts ...

  8. What is Friday the 13th and why is it considered unlucky ...

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    His swing at creating his own tradition caught on, as he and his co-workers began hosting these 24-hour tattoathons each year, at one point winning a spot in Guinness Book of World Records for ...

  9. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was ...