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Johnny Tremain is a 1957 American adventure war film made by Walt Disney Productions, released by Buena Vista Distribution, [2] and based on the 1944 Newbery Medal-winning children's novel of the same name by Esther Forbes, retelling the story of the years in Boston, Massachusetts prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution.
Films set in the Thirteen Colonies (1607–1776) of British North America before the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Settlers did not come to the American colonies with the intention of creating a democratic system; yet they quickly created a broad electorate. The 13 colonies had no hereditary aristocrats as in Europe. There were no rich gentry who owned all the farmland and rented it out to tenants, as in England and in the Dutch settlements in upstate New York.
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Join, or Die. is a political cartoon showing the disunity in the American colonies, originally in the context of the French and Indian War in 1754. Attributed to Benjamin Franklin , the original publication by The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754, [ 1 ] is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by an American ...
A video series about the encroachment of European settlers upon Indigenous lands and their reaction in their struggle to survive. Gunga Din: 1939: This American film is a fictional story about three British Indian Army officers who fight the Thuggee, an Indian cult, in British India. Haiti: The Way of Freedom: 1975
June 7 – American Revolution: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes to the Continental Congress the Lee Resolution that "these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." June 8 American Revolution: Battle of Trois-Rivières: American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.