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Hace 1 día · Inspiring other independence movements and revolutions. The American Revolution was part of the first wave of the Atlantic Revolutions, an 18th and 19th century revolutionary wave in the Atlantic World.
- 1765 to 1783
Hace 1 día · In the 18th century, New England became a hotbed of revolutionary agitation for independence from Great Britain, and its patriots played leading roles in establishing the new nation of the United States of America. In the early decades of the republic, the region strongly supported a national tariff and the policies of the Federalist ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 2 días · In the 18th century, 117 Americans had graduated in medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland, but most physicians learned as apprentices in the colonies. [76] The trustees of the Academy of Philadelphia, later the University of Pennsylvania , established the first medical school in the colonies in 1765, becoming the first university in the ...
Hace 2 días · 18th century. During the Great Awakening of the late eighteenth century, Methodist and Baptist preachers toured in the South, trying to persuade planters to manumit their slaves on the basis of equality in God's eyes. They also accepted slaves as members and preachers of new chapels and churches.
Hace 18 horas · The United States is relatively young by world standards, being less than 250 years old; it achieved its current size only in the mid-20th century. America was the first of the European colonies to separate successfully from its motherland, and it was the first nation to be established on the premise that sovereignty rests with its citizens and ...
Hace 3 días · The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America | Reviews in History. Book: The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America. Kate Haulman. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781469619019; 306pp.; Price: £34.50. Reviewer: Professor Gaye Wilson. Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies.
Hace 3 días · Methodism, 18th-century movement founded by John Wesley that sought to reform the Church of England from within. The movement, however, became separate from its parent body and developed into an autonomous church. The World Methodist Council comprises more than 40.5 million people in 138 countries.
