That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

After the American Revolution, the parishes in the newly independent country found it necessary to break formally from a church whose Supreme Governor was ( and remains ) the British monarch.

* 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.

* 1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

* 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins ; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.

: In this article, inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies of British America that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as " Americans ," with occasional references to " Patriots ", " Whigs ," " Rebels " or " Revolutionaries ".

The manner of cooking for the American colonists followed along the line of British cookery up until the Revolution.

The colonists enjoyed butter in cooking as well, but it was rare prior to the American Revolution, as cattle were not yet plentiful.

Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events ; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution.

A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution ( 1985 )

Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution.

* Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution ( 1992 )

Category: Rhode Island in the American Revolution

For example, following the American Revolution in 1776, one of the first legislative acts undertaken by each of the newly independent states was to adopt a " reception statute " that gave legal effect to the existing body of English common law to the extent that American legislation or the Constitution had not explicitly rejected English law.

* Children of the American Revolution, a genealogical society

Bernard Bailyn's classic The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution ( 1967 ) notes that a similar phenomenon could be found in America during the time preceding the American Revolution.

The Blackstone Valley was a major contributor of the American Industrial Revolution where Samuel Slater built his first textile mill.

For example, Lowell, Massachusetts, considered to be " The Cradle of the American Industrial Revolution ," has of canals, built from around 1790 to 1850, that provided water power and a means of transportation for the city.

By the American Revolution, most residents lived near the Common and Harvard College, with farms and estates comprising most of the town.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed.

After the war, enough British and American anthropologists borrowed ideas and methodological approaches from one another that some began to speak of them collectively as ' sociocultural ' anthropology.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.

This is particularly true as the peoples of the American Southwest began to leave their traditional homes and migrate south.

Alcott's opposition to slavery also fueled his opposition to the Mexican – American War which began in 1846.

The house was restored to the U. S. in 1818, though the fur trade would remain under British control until American pioneers following the Oregon Trail began filtering into the port town in the mid-1840s.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

American tabloids began consolidating in 1990, when American Media bought Star from Rupert Murdoch.

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

Following the proposal of the Sentinel and Safeguard decisions on American ABM systems, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in November 1969 ( SALT I ).

Baseball, said Spalding, was fundamentally an American sport and began on American soil.

In the majors, however, it was not until the signing of Robinson ( in the National League ) and Larry Doby ( in the American League ) that baseball began to remove its color bar.

A structured postseason series began in 1969, when both the National and American Leagues were reorganized into two divisions each, East and West.

Although the National League began its LCS MVP award in 1977, the American League did not begin its LCS MVP award until 1980.

Although the National League began its LCS MVP award in 1977, the American League did not begin its LCS MVP award till 1980.

In 1904, William Randolph Hearst began publishing his own newspaper in Boston called The American.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

American biological weapon development began in 1942.

Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.

The King-James-Only Movement — or more correctly, movements, since it has many variations — became a divisive force in fundamentalism only as conservative modern Bible translations, such as the New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) and the New International Version ( NIV ) began to appear in the 1970s.

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.