American Revolutionary era

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The American Revolutionary era was the late-18th-century period in which the thirteen American colonies broke from British rule, fought the Revolutionary War, and laid the political and ideological foundations for the United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical era
period of United States history
countryInvolved Dutch Republic
France
Great Britain
Spain
United States of America
surface form: United States
field Atlantic world
surface form: Atlantic history

intellectual history
military history
political history
followedBy Early national period of the United States
follows Colonial America
hasCause British imperial taxation policies
Seven Years' War debt
growing American political identity
lack of colonial representation in Parliament
hasEffect creation of republican institutions in the United States
decline of British authority in North America
Union of the American states
surface form: independence of the United States

inspiration for other Atlantic revolutions
hasEndTime 1789
hasIdeology classical liberalism
natural rights philosophy
popular sovereignty
republicanism
hasKeyFigure Alexander Hamilton
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
James Madison
John Adams
George III of the United Kingdom
surface form: King George III

Thomas Jefferson
hasPart United States Founding Fathers
surface form: American Founding

American Revolutionary War
surface form: American Revolution

American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War
surface form: American War of Independence

American independence movement
Confederation period
ratification of the United States Constitution
hasStartTime 1763
influenced French Revolution
Haitian Revolution
Latin American independence movements
surface form: Latin American wars of independence
influencedBy British constitutional tradition
Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment
location Atlantic world
British America
Thirteen Colonies
mainConflict American Revolutionary War
significantEvent Articles of Confederation
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
American Declaration of Independence
surface form: Declaration of Independence

First Continental Congress
Intolerable Acts
Philadelphia Convention
Second Continental Congress
Shays' Rebellion
Stamp Act 1765
surface form: Stamp Act crisis

Treaty of Paris (1783)
surface form: Treaty of Paris 1783

ratification of the Bill of Rights

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this entity surface form: American Revolution
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this entity surface form: American Revolution
Elizabeth Montgomery Witherspoon associatedWith American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Liberty Cap associatedWith American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Liberty Pole associatedWith American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Liberty Tree associatedWith American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
motto "Novus ordo seclorum" associatedWith American Revolutionary era
subject surface form: Novus ordo seclorum
this entity surface form: Founding of the United States
Old North Church associatedWith American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Sons of Liberty flag associatedWith American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Dorothy Quincy associatedWithEvent American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Essays in the Boston Gazette associatedWithEvent American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
King's Chapel associatedWithEvent American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Liberty Bell associatedWithEvent American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Old Dominion associatedWithEvent American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Rachel Walker associatedWithEvent American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary period
Thoughts on Standing Armies associatedWithEvent American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary movement
Virtue, Liberty and Independence associatedWithEvent American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Bacon's Rebellion chronologicalPrecedence American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Commons House of Assembly dissolvedAfter American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
New Jersey colonial assembly dissolvedAsResultOf American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Commons House of Assembly dissolvedIn American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary period
subject surface form: Arthur Middleton
John Barry era American Revolutionary era
John Parke Custis era American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary period
Mercy Otis Warren era American Revolutionary era
Peggy Shippen era American Revolutionary era
USS Wasp era American Revolutionary era
Revolutionary Spaces focus American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
United States constitutional history focusesOnPeriod American Revolutionary era
Franklin Court Underground Museum focusesOnTheme American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Colonial America followedBy American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary period
Early Republic of the United States follows American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: Founding Era of the United States
Early Republic of the United States follows American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts foundedAfter American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Yankee Doodle (song) hasCulturalOrigin American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Colonial America hasEndTime American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary War era
City of Presidents hasHeritageTheme American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Independence Square hasHistoricalPeriod American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
subject surface form: Chavaniac-Lafayette
this entity surface form: American Revolution
James Fenimore Cooper hasLiterarySetting American Revolutionary era
Boston National Historical Park hasTheme American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
William Dawes’s warning ride hasTopic American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
American Enlightenment historicalContext American Revolutionary era
Petition to the King historicalContext American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolution
Baltimore Harbor historicalEra American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary period
Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay historicalEra American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary period
Federalists historicalEra American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: Founding Era of the United States
House of Burgesses historicalEra American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary period
Livingston historicalEra American Revolutionary era
subject surface form: Livingston family
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary period
Peyton Randolph historicalEra American Revolutionary era
this entity surface form: American Revolutionary period