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1.President in 1789, Adams became America’s first Vice President and held that office for eight years. Adams ran for President in 1796 and won the election by three electoral votes over his longtime political rival Thomas Jefferson.

2. Adams served as a diplomat in France and the Netherlands. He secured loans and created alliances that played a decisive role in America’s victory over Great Britain. Adams helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, which outlined the terms for ending the war.

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There was a total of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 8 of the 56 were born in britain and the rest were natives born Americans.

2/3rds of the documents speaks out against Britain, it has contains complaints of the colonists against the british king and it contains the arguments the colonists used to explain why they wanted to be free of British rule.

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1754 - Benjamin Franklin drafts the French & Indian War
1763 - French & Indian war ends
1765 - colonies protest taxation
1770 - Boston massacre
1773 - slave petition
1776 - Jefferson begins declaration
Great Britain's Strengths:
had great wealth to buy supplies. British soldiers were well trained, WEAKNESS: inferior and over confident , far from home so supply lines were long.

American Strengths: great political leadership, received help from France, Spain , Europe etc.
WEAKNESS: government was badly organized, limited military supplies

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1. No one who signed the Declaration of Independence was born in the United States of America. The United States didn't exist until after the Declaration was signed! However, all but eight of the signers were born in colonies that would become the United States.
2.Nine of the signers of the Declaration died before the American Revolution ended in 1783.
3.Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the vote to approve the Declaration of Independence.
4.The only signer of the Declaration of Independence to survive beyond the 50th anniversary of the signing was Charles Carroll of Maryland. Carroll died in 1832 when he was 95 years old.
5.Robert Livingston, one of the members of the committee who wrote the Declaration of Independence, never signed it. He believed that it was too soon to declare independence and therefore refused to sign.

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7. the editors were John Adams Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, Roger Sherman
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9. I think it means they are putting their everything into writing the rules
10. members of the continental congress was Peyton Randolph ,Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, John Jay
11. it is a revolutionary document because its an important part of American democracy because it contains the ideals or goals of our nation & it contains the complaints of the colonists against the British king
12.  jefferson wrote it because had the fewest enemies in Congress and was the best writer.

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1. Written July 4th 1776
2. 12 colonies were declaring independence,all the colonies were wanting independence except New York
3. the first paragraph states that states that the colonies are going to become independent, they're going to dissolve the political bands
4. Thomas Jefferson had physically wrote the declaration of independence but many people have signed it.
5. the unalienable rights that cant be taken from people & are people have unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
6. Usurpation -  taking someone's power or property by force
Despotism - exercise of absolute power in a cruel and oppressive way

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Taxation Without Representation -  imposing taxes on people who have no recourse against or control over the taxing authority.

The Boston Tea Party - tipped the 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor because of taxes

The Intolerable Acts - punitive laws passed by the British Parliament, meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest

Proclamation of 1763 - prohibited settlers from crossing west over the Appalachian Mountains in order to prevent further conflicts between settlers and Native Americans

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1. royal
2.  proprietary
3. self-governing

1.Delaware,
2. Pennsylvania
3.Massachusetts Bay Colony
4. New Jersey,
5.Georgia
6. Connecticut,
7. Maryland,
8. South Carolina,
9. New Hampshire
10. Virginia,
11. New York,
12. North Carolina, and
13. Rhode Island