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<p>The <b>Lee Resolution</b>, also known as <b>"The Resolution for Independence"</b>, was the formal assertion passed by the <a href="Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a> on July 2, 1776, resolving that the <a href="Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a> (then referred to as the <a href="United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a>) were "free and independent States" and separate from the <a href="British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>. This created what became the <a href="United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">United States of America</a>, and news of the act was published that evening in <i><a href="The_Pennsylvania_Evening_Post" title="The Pennsylvania Evening Post">The Pennsylvania Evening Post</a></i> and the following day in <i><a href="The_Pennsylvania_Gazette" title="The Pennsylvania Gazette">The Pennsylvania Gazette</a></i>. The <a href="United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a>, which officially announced and explained the case for independence, was approved two days later, on July 4, 1776.

</p><p>The resolution is named for <a href="Richard_Henry_Lee" title="Richard Henry Lee">Richard Henry Lee</a> of <a href="Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Virginia</a>, who proposed it to Congress after receiving instructions and wording from the <a href="Fifth_Virginia_Convention" title="Fifth Virginia Convention">Fifth Virginia Convention</a> and its President <a href="Edmund_Pendleton" title="Edmund Pendleton">Edmund Pendleton</a>. Lee's full resolution had three parts which were considered by Congress on June 7, 1776. Along with the independence issue, it also proposed to establish a plan for ensuing <a href="Foreign_relations_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign relations of the United States">American foreign relations</a>, and to prepare a plan of a confederation for the states to consider. Congress decided to address each of these three parts separately.

</p><p>Some sources suggest that Lee used language from the Virginia Convention's instructions almost verbatim. A vote on the first part of the resolution was delayed for several weeks to allow time for securing state support and legislative instructions for independence. However, the urgency of events required the immediate consideration of the other, less-debated provisions. On June 10, Congress decided to form a committee to draft a <a href="Declaration_of_independence" title="Declaration of independence">declaration of independence</a> in case the resolution should pass; the following day, <a href="John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a>, <a href="Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a href="Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, <a href="Roger_Sherman" title="Roger Sherman">Roger Sherman</a>, and <a href="Robert_R._Livingston_(chancellor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert R. Livingston (chancellor)">Robert R. Livingston</a> were appointed as the <a href="Committee_of_Five" title="Committee of Five">Committee of Five</a> to accomplish this. That same day, Congress decided to establish two other committees to develop the resolution's last two parts. The following day, another committee of five (<a href="John_Dickinson" title="John Dickinson">John Dickinson</a>, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, <a href="Benjamin_Harrison_V" title="Benjamin Harrison V">Benjamin Harrison V</a>, and <a href="Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Robert Morris</a>) was established to prepare a plan of treaties to be proposed to foreign powers; a third committee was created, consisting of one member from each colony, to prepare a draft of a constitution for confederation of the states.

</p><p>The committee appointed to prepare a plan of treaties made its first report on July 18, largely in the writing of John Adams. A limited printing of the document was authorized, and it was reviewed and amended by Congress over the next five weeks. On August 27, the amended plan of treaties was referred back to the committee to develop instructions concerning the amendments, and Richard Henry Lee and <a href="James_Wilson_(Founding_Father)" title="James Wilson (Founding Father)">James Wilson</a> were added to the committee. Two days later, the committee was empowered to prepare further instructions and report back to Congress. The formal version of the <a href="Model_Treaty" title="Model Treaty">plan of treaties</a> was adopted on September 17. On September 24, Congress approved negotiating instructions for commissioners to obtain a treaty with France, based on the template provided in the plan of treaties; the next day, Benjamin Franklin, <a href="Silas_Deane" title="Silas Deane">Silas Deane</a>, and Thomas Jefferson were elected commissioners to the court of France.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alliance with France was considered vital if the war with Britain was to be won and the newly declared country was to survive.

</p><p>The committee drafting a plan of confederation was chaired by John Dickinson; they presented their initial results to Congress on July 12, 1776. Long debates followed on such issues as sovereignty, the exact powers to be given the confederate government, whether to have a judiciary, and voting procedures.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The final draft of the <a href="Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> was prepared during the summer of 1777 and approved by Congress for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.<sup id="cite_ref-Schwarz_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schwarz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It continued in use from that time onward, although it was not ratified by all states until almost four years later on March 1, 1781.

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<p>When the <a href="American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> began in 1775, few colonists in British North America openly advocated independence from Great Britain. Support for independence grew steadily in 1776, especially after the publication of <a href="Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>'s pamphlet <i><a href="Common_Sense_(pamphlet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Common Sense (pamphlet)">Common Sense</a></i> in January of that year. In the Second Continental Congress, the movement towards independence was guided principally by an informal alliance of delegates eventually known as the "Adams-Lee Junto", after <a href="Samuel_Adams" title="Samuel Adams">Samuel Adams</a> and <a href="John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> of <a href="Province_of_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Province of Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> and <a href="Richard_Henry_Lee" title="Richard Henry Lee">Richard Henry Lee</a> of <a href="Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Virginia</a>.

</p><p>On May 15, 1776, the revolutionary <a href="Fifth_Virginia_Convention" title="Fifth Virginia Convention">Virginia Convention</a>, then meeting in <a href="Williamsburg%2C_Virginia" title="Williamsburg, Virginia">Williamsburg</a>, passed a resolution instructing Virginia's delegates in the Continental Congress "to propose to that respectable body to declare the <a href="United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a> free and independent States, absolved from all allegiance to, or dependence upon, the Crown or Parliament of Great Britain".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In accordance with those instructions, on June 7, Richard Henry Lee proposed the resolution to Congress and it was seconded by John Adams.

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<blockquote><p>Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

</p><p>That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances.

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That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.</p></blockquote>

<p>Congress as a whole was not yet ready to declare independence at that moment, because the delegates from some of the colonies, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York, had not yet been authorized to vote for independence.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Voting on the first clause of Lee's resolution was therefore postponed for three weeks while advocates of independence worked to build support in the colonial governments for the resolution.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, a <a href="Committee_of_Five" title="Committee of Five">Committee of Five</a> was appointed to prepare a formal declaration so that it would be ready when independence, which almost everyone recognized was now inevitable, was approved. The committee prepared a declaration of independence, written primarily by <a href="Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, and presented it to Congress on June 28, 1776.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Approval_and_declaration">Approval and declaration</h2></div>

<p>The declaration was set aside while the resolution of independence was debated for several days. The vote on the independence section of the Lee resolution had been postponed until Monday, July 1, when it was taken up by the Committee of the Whole. At the request of South Carolina, the resolution was not acted upon until the following day in the hope of securing unanimity. A trial vote had been tested where it was found that South Carolina and Pennsylvania were in the negative, with Delaware split in a tie between its two delegates. The vote was held on July 2, with critical changes happening between Monday and Tuesday. <a href="Edward_Rutledge" title="Edward Rutledge">Edward Rutledge</a> was able to persuade South Carolina delegates to vote yes, two Pennsylvania delegates were persuaded to be absent, and <a href="Caesar_Rodney" title="Caesar Rodney">Caesar Rodney</a> had been sent for through the night to break Delaware's tie,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so Lee's resolution of independence was approved by 12 of the 13 colonies. Delegates from the <a href="Colony_of_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Colony of New York">Colony of New York</a> still lacked instructions to vote for independence, so they abstained on this vote, although the <a href="New_York_Provincial_Congress" title="New York Provincial Congress">New York Provincial Congress</a> voted on July 9 to "join with the other colonies in supporting" independence.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The Lee Resolution's passage was reported at the time as the colonies' definitive declaration of independence from Great Britain. <i><a href="The_Pennsylvania_Evening_Post" title="The Pennsylvania Evening Post">The Pennsylvania Evening Post</a></i> reported on July 2:

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<blockquote><p>This day the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS declared the UNITED COLONIES FREE and INDEPENDENT STATES.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>

<p><i><a href="The_Pennsylvania_Gazette" title="The Pennsylvania Gazette">The Pennsylvania Gazette</a></i> followed suit the next day with its own brief report:

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<blockquote><p>Yesterday, the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS declared the UNITED COLONIES FREE and INDEPENDENT STATES.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>

<p>After passing the resolution of independence on July 2, Congress turned its attention to the text of the declaration. Over several days of debate, Congress made a number of alterations to the text, including adding the wording of Lee's resolution of independence to the conclusion. The final text of the declaration was approved by Congress on July 4 and sent off to be printed.

</p><p><a href="John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> wrote his wife <a href="Abigail_Adams" title="Abigail Adams">Abigail</a> on July 3 about the resolution of independence:

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<blockquote><p>The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>

<p>Adams's prediction was off by two days. From the outset, Americans celebrated <a href="Independence_Day_(United_States)" title="Independence Day (United States)">Independence Day</a> on July 4, the date when the Declaration of Independence was approved, rather than on July 2, the date when the resolution of independence was adopted.

</p><p>The two latter parts of the Lee Resolution were not passed until months later. The second part regarding the formation of foreign alliances was approved in September 1776, and the third part regarding a plan of confederation was approved in November 1777 and finally ratified in 1781.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Congressional_journal_entries">Congressional journal entries</h3></div>

<p>The following are entries relating to the resolution of independence and the Declaration of Independence in the <i>Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789</i>, from <a href="American_Memory" title="American Memory">American Memory</a>, published by the <a href="Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>:

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc0054))">Friday, June 7</a>, "certain resolutions respecting independency" are moved and seconded; discussion set for Saturday</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc0055)):">Saturday, June 8</a>, Congress considers the resolutions but postpones a decision</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc0056)):">Monday, June 10</a>, Congress postpones the first part of Lee's resolution for three weeks, and also decides to appoint "a committee to prepare a declaration to the effect of the said first resolution".</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28jc0057%29%29:">Tuesday, June 11</a>, Congress establishes three committees to pursue the three part resolution, and names five members of the first "to prepare the declaration".</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28jc0058%29%29:">Wednesday, June 12</a>, Congress appointments members of the other two committees. One of 13 members to "prepare and digest the form of a confederation", and the other of five members to "prepare a plan of treaties to be proposed to foreign powers".</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc00521))">Friday, June 28</a>, the committee reports its draft of the declaration, which is ordered "To lie on the table."</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc00522)):">Monday, July 1</a>, Congress begins "to take into consideration the resolution respecting independency"</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc00523)):">Tuesday, July 2</a>, Congress agrees to the resolution, begins to consider the declaration</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc00524)):">Wednesday, July 3</a>, further consideration of the declaration</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc00525)):">Thursday, July 4</a>, the Declaration of Independence is approved. The text of the Declaration on this day's entry of the published <i>Journal</i>, as well as the list of signatures, is copied from the engrossed version of the Declaration.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28jc00532%29%29:">Friday, July 12</a>, The committee appointed to prepare articles of confederation delivered their draft, which was read.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc00534)):">Monday, July 15</a>, Congress learns that New York now supports independence</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc00537)):">Thursday, July 18</a>, The committee appointed to prepare a plan of treaties to be entered into with foreign states or kingdoms delivered their draft, which was read.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc00538)):">Friday, July 19</a>, Congress orders that the Declaration "be fairly engrossed on parchment"</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc00549))">Friday, August 2</a>, the Declaration of Independence is signed by members of Congress</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28jc00569%29%29:">Tuesday, August 27</a>, The amended plan of treaties was referred back to the committee to develop instructions regarding the amendments made by Congress. The committee size was increased by two members.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28jc00571%29%29:">Thursday, August 29</a>, the committee for the plan of treaties was empowered to prepare further appropriate instructions, and report back to Congress.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28jc00587%29%29:">Tuesday, September 17</a>, Congress discussed the amended plan of treaties to be proposed to foreign nations, and [secretly] passed the plan of a treaty be proposed to <a href="Style_of_the_French_sovereign#Most_Christian_King" title="Style of the French sovereign">His Most Christian Majesty</a>.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28jc00592%29%29:">Tuesday, September 24</a>, Congress resumed consideration of the instructions to the agent [commissioner] regarding the pursuit of the plan of treaty with France, debated it by paragraph, amended it, and approved it.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28jc00594%29%29:">Thursday, September 26</a>, 1776 Congress elects three commissioners to the court of France, Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Thomas Jefferson. They also resolve "That secresy shall be observed until the farther Order of Congress; and that until permission be obtained from Congress to disclose the particulars of this business, no member be permitted to say any thing more upon this subject, than that Congress have taken such steps as they judged necessary for the purpose of obtaining foreign Alliance."</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:1:./temp/~ammem_vj1U::">Saturday, November 15, 1777</a>, Congress approves the <a href="Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union</a> for ratification by the individual States.</li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Halifax_Resolves" title="Halifax Resolves">Halifax Resolves</a>, the first colonial government resolution calling for the nation's independence from England, passed by the <a href="North_Carolina_Provincial_Congress" title="North Carolina Provincial Congress">North Carolina Provincial Congress</a> on April 12, 1776 in <a href="Halifax%2C_North_Carolina" title="Halifax, North Carolina">Halifax, North Carolina</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2></div>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFJensen1959" class="citation book cs1">Jensen, Merrill (1959). <i>The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774–1781</i>. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">127–</span>84. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-299-00204-6</bdi>.</cite> <span class="cs1-hidden-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{cite book}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-hidden-error citation-comment">ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)</span></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Schwarz-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Schwarz_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFSchwarz2006" class="citation journal cs1">Schwarz, Frederic D. (February–March 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090601231914/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/1/2006_1_72.shtml">"225 Years Ago"</a>. <i>American Heritage</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/1/2006_1_72.shtml">the original</a> on 2009-06-01.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Boyd, <i>Evolution of the Text</i>, 18; Maier, <i>American Scripture</i>, 63. For text of the May 15 Virginia resolution, see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/const/const02.htm">Yale.edu</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080620032827/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/const/const02.htm">Archived</a> 2008-06-20 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Maier, <i>American Scripture</i>, 42.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Maier, <i>American Scripture</i>, 43.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_IGk3AQAAMAAJ/page/n292">History of Delaware : 1609–1888: General history, by John Thomas Scharf</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burnett, <i>Continental Congress</i>, 191.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Pennsylvania Evening Post</i>, July 2, 1776</span>

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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Pennsylvania Gazette</i>, July 3, 1776</span>

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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776, "Had a Declaration" [electronic edition]. Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive. Massachusetts Historical Society. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/;">Masshist.org</a>, Butterfield, L.H., ed. Adams Family Correspondence. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963.</span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

<ul><li>Boyd, Julian P. <i>The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text</i>. Originally published 1945. Revised edition edited by Gerard W. Gawalt. University Press of New England, 1999. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-8444-0980-4</bdi>.</li>

<li>Burnett, Edward Cody. <i>The Continental Congress</i>. New York: Norton, 1941.</li>

<li>Hogeland, William. <i>Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1–July 4, 1776</i>. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-1-4165-8409-4</bdi>.</li>

<li><a href="Pauline_Maier" title="Pauline Maier">Maier, Pauline</a>. <i>American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence</i>. New York: Knopf, 1997. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-679-45492-6</bdi>.</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/lee.asp">Text of Lee's Resolution</a> from the <a href="Avalon_Project" title="Avalon Project">Avalon Project</a> at <a href="Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=1">Lee Resolution (1776)</a>, one of the "100 milestone documents" of the Our Documents initiative, published by the U.S. government</li>

<li>Presentation of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_timeline.html">Lee Resolution</a> from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archives.org">National Archives and Records Administration</a> as part of their Charters of Freedom presentation of the Declaration of Independence.</li></ul>

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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="List_of_United_States_senators_from_Virginia" title="List of United States senators from Virginia">United States Senator from Virginia, 1789-1792</a> (<a href="President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="President pro tempore of the United States Senate">president pro tempore, 1792</a>)</span></li>

<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Delegate, Continental Congress, 1774, 1776, 1784-1787</a> (<a href="President_of_the_Continental_Congress" title="President of the Continental Congress">president, 1784-85</a>)</span></li>

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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding of the<br>United States</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Leedstown_Resolutions" title="Leedstown Resolutions">Leedstown Resolutions</a></li>

<li><a href="Virginia_Association" title="Virginia Association">Virginia Association</a> (co-author)</li>

<li><a href="Continental_Association" title="Continental Association">Continental Association</a> (1774, proposed, signed)</li>

<li><a href="Petition_to_the_King" title="Petition to the King">Petition to the King</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a> (signed)</li>

<li><a href="Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> (signed)</li>

<li><a href="Judiciary_Act_of_1789" title="Judiciary Act of 1789">Judiciary Act of 1789</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Homes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Stratford_Hall_(plantation)" title="Stratford Hall (plantation)">Stratford Hall</a></li>

<li><a href="Chantilly_(Montross%2C_Virginia)" title="Chantilly (Montross, Virginia)">Chantilly</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Namesakes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="SS_Richard_Henry_Lee" title="SS Richard Henry Lee">SS <i>Richard Henry Lee</i></a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Depictions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Declaration_of_Independence_(film)" title="Declaration of Independence (film)">Declaration of Independence</a></i> (1938 film)</li>

<li><i><a href="1776_(musical)" title="1776 (musical)">1776</a></i> (<a href="1776_(musical)" title="1776 (musical)">1969 musical</a>, <a href="1776_(film)" title="1776 (film)">1972 film</a>)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Lee_family" title="Lee family">Family</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Thomas_Jesse_Lee" title="Thomas Jesse Lee">Thomas Jesse Lee</a> (son)</li>

<li><a href="Ludwell_Lee" title="Ludwell Lee">Ludwell Lee</a> (son)</li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Phillips_Lee" title="Samuel Phillips Lee">Samuel Phillips Lee</a> (grandson)</li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Lee_(Virginia_colonist)" title="Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)">Thomas Lee</a> (father)</li>

<li><a href="Hannah_Harrison_Ludwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Hannah Harrison Ludwell">Hannah Harrison Ludwell</a> (mother)</li>

<li><a href="Hannah_Lee_Corbin" title="Hannah Lee Corbin">Hannah Ludwell Lee</a> (sister)</li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Ludwell_Lee" title="Thomas Ludwell Lee">Thomas Ludwell Lee</a> (brother)</li>

<li><a href="Francis_Lightfoot_Lee" title="Francis Lightfoot Lee">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a> (brother)</li>

<li><a href="William_Lee_(diplomat)" title="William Lee (diplomat)">William Lee</a> (brother)</li>

<li><a href="Arthur_Lee_(diplomat)" title="Arthur Lee (diplomat)">Arthur Lee</a> (brother)</li>

<li><a href="Richard_Lee_II" title="Richard Lee II">Richard Lee II</a> (grandfather)</li>

<li><a href="Laetitia_Corbin_Lee" title="Laetitia Corbin Lee">Laetitia Corbin Lee</a> (grandmother)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Memorial_to_the_56_Signers_of_the_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence">Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence</a></li>

<li><a href="Mississippi_Land_Company" title="Mississippi Land Company">Mississippi Land Company</a></li>

<li><a href="Federal_Farmer" title="Federal Farmer">Federal Farmer</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of presidents of the United States">2nd</a> <a href="President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> (1797–1801)</span></li>

<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="List_of_vice_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of vice presidents of the United States">1st</a> <a href="Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President of the United States</a> (1789–1797)</span></li>

<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Kingdom">U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom</a> (1785–1788)</span></li>

<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_the_Netherlands" title="List of ambassadors of the United States to the Netherlands">U.S. Minister to the Netherlands</a> (1782–1788)</span></li>

<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="List_of_delegates_to_the_Continental_Congress" title="List of delegates to the Continental Congress">Delegate</a> to the <a href="Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a> (1775–1778)</span></li>

<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="List_of_delegates_to_the_Continental_Congress" title="List of delegates to the Continental Congress">Delegate</a> to the <a href="First_Continental_Congress" title="First Continental Congress">First Continental Congress</a> (1774)</span></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Braintree_Instructions" title="Braintree Instructions">Braintree Instructions (1765)</a></li>

<li><a href="Boston_Massacre#Trials" title="Boston Massacre">Boston Massacre defense</a></li>

<li><a href="Continental_Association" title="Continental Association">Continental Association</a></li>

<li><a href="Petition_to_the_King" title="Petition to the King">Petition to the King</a></li>

<li><a href="United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a></li>

<li><a href="Thoughts_on_Government" title="Thoughts on Government"><i>Thoughts on Government</i> (1776)</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Adams#Independence" title="John Adams">Declaration of Independence</a>

<ul><li><a href="United_States_Declaration_of_Independence#May_15_preamble" title="United States Declaration of Independence">May 15 preamble</a></li>

<li><a href="Committee_of_Five" title="Committee of Five">Committee of Five</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Model_Treaty" title="Model Treaty">Model Treaty</a>

<ul><li><a href="Treaty_of_Amity_and_Commerce_(France%E2%80%93United_States)" title="Treaty of Amity and Commerce (France–United States)">Treaty of Amity and Commerce</a></li>

<li><a href="Treaty_of_Alliance_(1778)" title="Treaty of Alliance (1778)">Treaty of Alliance</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Board_of_War" title="Board of War">Board of War</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy#Secretaries_of_the_Navy" title="United States Secretary of the Navy">Chairman of the Marine Committee, 1775–1779</a>

<ul><li><a href="Continental_Navy" title="Continental Navy">Continental Navy</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Staten_Island_Peace_Conference" title="Staten Island Peace Conference">Staten Island Peace Conference</a>

<ul><li><a href="Conference_House" title="Conference House">Conference House</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Constitution_of_Massachusetts" title="Constitution of Massachusetts">Constitution of Massachusetts (1780)</a></li>

<li><a href="Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)" title="Treaty of Paris (1783)">Treaty of Paris, 1783</a></li>

<li><a href="Diplomacy_of_John_Adams" title="Diplomacy of John Adams">Diplomacy</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="1788%E2%80%9389_United_States_presidential_election" title="1788–89 United States presidential election">United States presidential election 1788–1789</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Presidency_of_John_Adams" title="Presidency of John Adams">Presidency</a><br>(<a href="Timeline_of_the_John_Adams_presidency" title="Timeline of the John Adams presidency">timeline</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Inauguration_of_John_Adams" title="Inauguration of John Adams">Inauguration</a></li>

<li><a href="Quasi-War" title="Quasi-War">Quasi War with France</a>

<ul><li><a href="XYZ_Affair" title="XYZ Affair">XYZ Affair</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Department_of_the_Navy" title="United States Department of the Navy">United States Department of the Navy</a></li>

<li><a href="An_Act_further_to_protect_the_commerce_of_the_United_States" title="An Act further to protect the commerce of the United States">Commerce Protection Act</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marine Corps</a></li>

<li><a href="Convention_of_1800" title="Convention of 1800">Convention of 1800</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Mississippi_Territory" title="Mississippi Territory">Mississippi Organic Act</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_and_Sedition_Acts" title="Alien and Sedition Acts">Alien and Sedition Acts</a>

<ul><li><a href="Naturalization_Act_of_1798" title="Naturalization Act of 1798">Naturalization Act of 1798</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="An_Act_for_the_relief_of_sick_and_disabled_seamen" title="An Act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen">Sick and Disabled Seamen Relief Act</a>

<ul><li><a href="Marine_Hospital_Service" title="Marine Hospital Service">Marine Hospital Service</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Bankruptcy_Act_of_1800" title="Bankruptcy Act of 1800">Bankruptcy Act of 1800</a></li>

<li><a href="Indiana_Territory" title="Indiana Territory">Indiana Organic Act</a></li>

<li><a href="Slave_Trade_Act_of_1800" title="Slave Trade Act of 1800">Slave Trade Act of 1800</a></li>

<li><a href="District_of_Columbia_Organic_Act_of_1801" title="District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801">District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801</a></li>

<li><a href="Navy_Department_Library" title="Navy Department Library">Navy Department Library</a></li>

<li><a href="Treaty_of_Tellico" title="Treaty of Tellico">Treaty of Tellico</a></li>

<li><a href="Treaty_of_Tripoli" title="Treaty of Tripoli">Treaty of Tripoli</a></li>

<li><a href="Midnight_Judges_Act" title="Midnight Judges Act">Midnight Judges Act</a>

<ul><li><i><a href="Marbury_v._Madison" title="Marbury v. Madison">Marbury v. Madison</a></i></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="1797_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1797 State of the Union Address">State of the Union Address (1797</a></li>

<li><a href="Presidential_transition_of_Thomas_Jefferson" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidential transition of Thomas Jefferson">Presidential transition of Thomas Jefferson</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Adams#Administration_and_cabinet" title="John Adams">Cabinet</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_John_Adams" title="List of federal judges appointed by John Adams">Federal judiciary appointments</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other writings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Massachusetts_Historical_Society#Collections" title="Massachusetts Historical Society">Massachusetts Historical Society holdings</a>

<ul><li><a href="Adams_Papers_Editorial_Project" title="Adams Papers Editorial Project">Adams Papers Editorial Project</a></li></ul></li>

<li><i><a href="A_Defence_of_the_Constitutions_of_Government_of_the_United_States_of_America" title="A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America">A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Letters_of_Mrs._Adams%2C_the_Wife_of_John_Adams" title="Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams">Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Founders_Online" title="Founders Online">Founders Online</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Gray_v._Pitts" title="Gray v. Pitts">Gray v. Pitts</a></i></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Life and<br>homes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="John_Adams#Early_life_and_education" title="John Adams">Early life and education</a></li>

<li><a href="Adams_National_Historical_Park" title="Adams National Historical Park">Adams National Historical Park</a>

<ul><li><a href="John_Adams_Birthplace" title="John Adams Birthplace">John Adams Birthplace</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Quincy_Adams_Birthplace" title="John Quincy Adams Birthplace">Family home and John Quincy Adams birthplace</a></li>

<li><a href="Peacefield" title="Peacefield">Peacefield</a></li>

<li><a href="Adams_National_Historical_Park#Stone_Library" title="Adams National Historical Park">Stone Library</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Massachusetts_Hall_(Harvard_University)" title="Massachusetts Hall (Harvard University)">Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University</a></li>

<li><a href="President's_House_(Philadelphia)" title="President's House (Philadelphia)">Presidents House, Philadelphia</a></li>

<li><a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">Co-founder and second president, American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a></li>

<li><a href="United_First_Parish_Church" title="United First Parish Church">United First Parish Church and gravesite</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Legacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Bibliography_of_John_Adams" title="Bibliography of John Adams">Bibliography</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_memorials_to_John_Adams" title="List of memorials to John Adams">List of memorials</a></li>

<li><a href="Adams_Memorial" title="Adams Memorial">Adams Memorial</a> (proposed)</li>

<li><a href="John_Adams_Building" title="John Adams Building">John Adams Building</a></li>

<li><a href="Suffolk_County_Courthouse" title="Suffolk County Courthouse">John Adams Courthouse</a></li>

<li><a href="Jefferson_Memorial#Exterior" title="Jefferson Memorial">Jefferson Memorial pediment</a></li>

<li><a href="Presidents_of_the_United_States_on_U.S._postage_stamps#John_Adams" title="Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps">U.S. Postage stamps</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Treaty_of_Paris_(painting)" title="Treaty of Paris (painting)">Treaty of Paris</a></i> (1783 painting)</li>

<li><a href="USS_Adams_(1799)" title="USS Adams (1799)">USS <i>Adams</i></a> (1799)</li>

<li><a href="USS_John_Adams_(1799)" title="USS John Adams (1799)">USS <i>John Adams</i></a> (1799)</li>

<li><a href="USS_Adams_(1874)" title="USS Adams (1874)">USS <i>Adams</i></a> (1874)</li>

<li><a href="USS_President_Adams" title="USS President Adams">USS <i>President Adams</i></a> (1941)</li>

<li><a href="USS_John_Adams_(SSBN-620)" title="USS John Adams (SSBN-620)">USS <i>John Adams</i></a> (1963)</li>

<li><a href="Adams_House_(Harvard_College)" title="Adams House (Harvard College)">Adams House at Harvard University</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Adams_(tree)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Adams (tree)">John Adams tree</a></li>

<li><a href="Mount_Adams_(New_Hampshire)" title="Mount Adams (New Hampshire)">Mount Adams (New Hampshire,</a> <a href="Mount_Adams_(Washington)" title="Mount Adams (Washington)">Washington)</a></li>

<li><a href="Memorial_to_the_56_Signers_of_the_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence">Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Popular culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Declaration_of_Independence_(film)" title="Declaration of Independence (film)">Declaration of Independence</a></i> (1938 film)</li>

<li><a href="Profiles_in_Courage_(TV_series)" title="Profiles in Courage (TV series)"><i>Profiles in Courage</i> (1964 series)</a></li>

<li><a href="American_Primitive" title="American Primitive"><i>American Primitive</i> (1969 play)</a></li>

<li><a href="1776_(musical)" title="1776 (musical)"><i>1776</i> (1969 musical</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Adams_Chronicles" title="The Adams Chronicles"><i>The Adams Chronicles</i> (1976 miniseries)</a></li>

<li><a href="Liberty!" title="Liberty!"><i>Liberty!</i> (1997 documentary series)</a></li>

<li><a href="Liberty's_Kids" title="Liberty's Kids"><i>Liberty's Kids</i> (2002 animated series)</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Adams_(book)" title="John Adams (book)"><i>John Adams</i> (2001 book</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Adams_(miniseries)" title="John Adams (miniseries)">2008 miniseries)</a></li>

<li><a href="John_and_Abigail_Adams" title="John and Abigail Adams"><i>John and Abigail Adams</i> (2006 documentary film)</a></li>

<li><a href="Sons_of_Liberty_(miniseries)" title="Sons of Liberty (miniseries)"><i>Sons of Liberty</i> (2015 miniseries)</a></li>

<li><a href="Franklin_(miniseries)" title="Franklin (miniseries)"><i>Franklin</i> (2024 miniseries)</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Adams_and_Liberty" title="Adams and Liberty">"Adams and Liberty" campaign song</a></li>

<li><a href="Boston_Public_Library#Overview" title="Boston Public Library">Adams' personal library</a></li>

<li><a href="American_Enlightenment" title="American Enlightenment">American Enlightenment</a></li>

<li><a href="Congress_Hall" title="Congress Hall">Congress Hall</a></li>

<li><a href="Federalist_Party" title="Federalist Party">Federalist Party</a>

<ul><li><a href="Federalist_Era" title="Federalist Era">Federalist Era</a></li>

<li><a href="First_Party_System" title="First Party System">First Party System</a></li>

<li><a href="Republicanism_in_the_United_States" title="Republicanism in the United States">republicanism</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Gazette_of_the_United_States" title="Gazette of the United States">Gazette of the United States</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_American_Museum_(magazine)" title="The American Museum (magazine)">The American Museum</a></i></li>

<li><a href="American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>

<ul><li><a href="Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">patriots</a></li>

<li><a href="Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Fathers</a></li></ul></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Abigail_Adams" title="Abigail Adams">Abigail Adams</a>

<li><a href="Quincy_political_family" title="Quincy political family">Quincy political family</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Abigail_Adams_Smith" title="Abigail Adams Smith">Abigail Adams Smith</a> (daughter)</li>

<li><a href="John_Quincy_Adams" title="John Quincy Adams">John Quincy Adams</a>

<li><a href="Presidency_of_John_Quincy_Adams" title="Presidency of John Quincy Adams">presidency</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Adams_(1770%E2%80%931800)" title="Charles Adams (1770–1800)">Charles Adams</a> (son)</li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Boylston_Adams_(judge)" title="Thomas Boylston Adams (judge)">Thomas Boylston Adams</a> (son)</li>

<li><a href="George_Washington_Adams" title="George Washington Adams">George Washington Adams</a> (grandson)</li>

<li><a href="Charles_Francis_Adams_Sr." title="Charles Francis Adams Sr.">Charles Francis Adams Sr.</a> (grandson)</li>

<li><a href="John_Adams_II" title="John Adams II">John Adams II</a> (grandson)</li>

<li><a href="John_Quincy_Adams_II" title="John Quincy Adams II">John Quincy Adams II</a> (great-grandson)</li>

<li><a href="Henry_Adams" title="Henry Adams">Henry Adams</a> (great-grandson)</li>

<li><a href="Brooks_Adams" title="Brooks Adams">Brooks Adams</a> (great-grandson)</li>

<li><a href="John_Adams_Sr." title="John Adams Sr.">John Adams Sr.</a> (father)</li>

<li><a href="Susanna_Boylston" title="Susanna Boylston">Susanna Boylston</a> (mother)</li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Adams" title="Samuel Adams">Samuel Adams</a> (second cousin)</li>

<li><a href="Louisa_Adams" title="Louisa Adams">Louisa Adams</a> (daughter-in-law, <a href="List_of_first_ladies_of_the_United_States" title="List of first ladies of the United States">first lady</a>)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><b><a href="George_Washington" title="George Washington">← George Washington</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson →</a></b></li></ul>

<ul><li>Thomas Jefferson →</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Physical_history_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Physical history of the United States Declaration of Independence">Physical history of the Declaration of Independence</a></li>

<li><a href="Memorial_to_the_56_Signers_of_the_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence">Memorial to the 56 Signers</a></li>

<li><a href="Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Fathers</a></li>

<li><a href="Syng_inkstand" title="Syng inkstand">Syng inkstand</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Signing_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence">Signatories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="President_of_the_Continental_Congress" title="President of the Continental Congress">President of Congress</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="John_Hancock" title="John Hancock">John Hancock</a> (Massachusetts)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New Hampshire</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Josiah_Bartlett" title="Josiah Bartlett">Josiah Bartlett</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Whipple" title="William Whipple">William Whipple</a></li>

<li><a href="Matthew_Thornton" title="Matthew Thornton">Matthew Thornton</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Massachusetts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Samuel_Adams" title="Samuel Adams">Samuel Adams</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Treat_Paine" title="Robert Treat Paine">Robert Treat Paine</a></li>

<li><a href="Elbridge_Gerry" title="Elbridge Gerry">Elbridge Gerry</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rhode Island</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Stephen_Hopkins_(politician)" title="Stephen Hopkins (politician)">Stephen Hopkins</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Ellery" title="William Ellery">William Ellery</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Connecticut</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Roger_Sherman" title="Roger Sherman">Roger Sherman</a></li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Huntington_(Connecticut_politician)" title="Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)">Samuel Huntington</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Williams_(Connecticut_politician)" title="William Williams (Connecticut politician)">William Williams</a></li>

<li><a href="Oliver_Wolcott" title="Oliver Wolcott">Oliver Wolcott</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New York</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="William_Floyd" title="William Floyd">William Floyd</a></li>

<li><a href="Philip_Livingston" title="Philip Livingston">Philip Livingston</a></li>

<li><a href="Francis_Lewis" title="Francis Lewis">Francis Lewis</a></li>

<li><a href="Lewis_Morris" title="Lewis Morris">Lewis Morris</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New Jersey</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Richard_Stockton_(Continental_Congressman)" title="Richard Stockton (Continental Congressman)">Richard Stockton</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Witherspoon" title="John Witherspoon">John Witherspoon</a></li>

<li><a href="Francis_Hopkinson" title="Francis Hopkinson">Francis Hopkinson</a></li>

<li><a href="Abraham_Clark" title="Abraham Clark">Abraham Clark</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pennsylvania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Robert Morris</a></li>

<li><a href="Benjamin_Rush" title="Benjamin Rush">Benjamin Rush</a></li>

<li><a href="Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Morton_(American_politician)" title="John Morton (American politician)">John Morton</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Clymer" title="George Clymer">George Clymer</a></li>

<li><a href="James_Smith_(Pennsylvania_politician)" title="James Smith (Pennsylvania politician)">James Smith</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Taylor_(Pennsylvania_politician)" title="George Taylor (Pennsylvania politician)">George Taylor</a></li>

<li><a href="James_Wilson_(Founding_Father)" title="James Wilson (Founding Father)">James Wilson</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Ross_(American_politician)" title="George Ross (American politician)">George Ross</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Delaware</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="George_Read_(American_politician%2C_born_1733)" title="George Read (American politician, born 1733)">George Read</a></li>

<li><a href="Caesar_Rodney" title="Caesar Rodney">Caesar Rodney</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_McKean" title="Thomas McKean">Thomas McKean</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Maryland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Samuel_Chase" title="Samuel Chase">Samuel Chase</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Paca" title="William Paca">William Paca</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Stone" title="Thomas Stone">Thomas Stone</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton" title="Charles Carroll of Carrollton">Charles Carroll of Carrollton</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Virginia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="George_Wythe" title="George Wythe">George Wythe</a></li>

<li><a href="Richard_Henry_Lee" title="Richard Henry Lee">Richard Henry Lee</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a></li>

<li><a href="Benjamin_Harrison_V" title="Benjamin Harrison V">Benjamin Harrison</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Nelson_Jr." title="Thomas Nelson Jr.">Thomas Nelson Jr.</a></li>

<li><a href="Francis_Lightfoot_Lee" title="Francis Lightfoot Lee">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a></li>

<li><a href="Carter_Braxton" title="Carter Braxton">Carter Braxton</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North Carolina</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="William_Hooper" title="William Hooper">William Hooper</a></li>

<li><a href="Joseph_Hewes" title="Joseph Hewes">Joseph Hewes</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South Carolina</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Edward_Rutledge" title="Edward Rutledge">Edward Rutledge</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Heyward_Jr." title="Thomas Heyward Jr.">Thomas Heyward Jr.</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Lynch_Jr." title="Thomas Lynch Jr.">Thomas Lynch Jr.</a></li>

<li><a href="Arthur_Middleton" title="Arthur Middleton">Arthur Middleton</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Georgia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Button_Gwinnett" title="Button Gwinnett">Button Gwinett</a></li>

<li><a href="Lyman_Hall" title="Lyman Hall">Lyman Hall</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Walton" title="George Walton">George Walton</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Delegates voting<br>for Independence<br>(did not sign)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b>New York</b>: <a href="Robert_R._Livingston" title="Robert R. Livingston">Robert R. Livingston</a>, <a href="Henry_Wisner" title="Henry Wisner">Henry Wisner</a><br>

<b>Maryland</b>: <a href="John_Rogers_(Continental_Congress)" title="John Rogers (Continental Congress)">John Rogers</a>, <a href="Matthew_Tilghman" title="Matthew Tilghman">Matthew Tilghman</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Halifax_Resolves" title="Halifax Resolves">Halifax Resolves</a></li>

<li><a href="Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights" title="Virginia Declaration of Rights">Virginia Declaration of Rights</a></li>

<li><a href="Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="Committee_of_Five" title="Committee of Five">Committee of Five</a>

<ul><li>"<a href="All_men_are_created_equal" title="All men are created equal">All men are created equal</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Life%2C_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_Happiness" title="Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness">Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Consent_of_the_governed" title="Consent of the governed">Consent of the governed</a>"</li>

<li><a href="Grievances_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Grievances of the United States Declaration of Independence">27 grievances</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Physical_history_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Physical history of the United States Declaration of Independence">Document's history</a>

<ul><li><a href="Signing_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence">signing</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Thomson" title="Charles Thomson">Charles Thomson</a></li>

<li><a href="Timothy_Matlack" title="Timothy Matlack">Timothy Matlack</a></li>

<li><a href="Journals_of_the_Continental_Congress" title="Journals of the Continental Congress">Journals of the Continental Congress</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a></li>

<li><a href="Independence_Hall" title="Independence Hall">Independence Hall</a>

<ul><li><a href="Syng_inkstand" title="Syng inkstand">Syng inkstand</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Display<br>and legacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="National_Archives_Building" title="National Archives Building">National Archives</a>

<ul><li><a href="Charters_of_Freedom" title="Charters of Freedom">Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Independence_Day_(United_States)" title="Independence Day (United States)">Independence Day</a></li>

<li>Anniversaries

<ul><li><a href="Centennial_Exposition" title="Centennial Exposition">Centennial</a></li>

<li><a href="Sesquicentennial_Exposition" title="Sesquicentennial Exposition">Sesquicentennial</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Bicentennial" title="United States Bicentennial">Bicentennial</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Semiquincentennial" title="United States Semiquincentennial">Semiquincentennial</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Signers_Monument" title="Signers Monument">Signers Monument (Georgia)</a></li>

<li><a href="Congress_Voting_Independence" title="Congress Voting Independence">Pine portrait</a></li>

<li><a href="Declaration_of_Independence_(painting)" title="Declaration of Independence (painting)">Trumbull portrait</a></li>

<li><a href="Statue_of_Liberty" title="Statue of Liberty">Statue of Liberty</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a></li>

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<li><a href="Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)" title="Treaty of Paris (1783)">Treaty of Paris</a></li></ul></li>

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<li><a href="Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a></li>

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<li><a href="Second-wave_feminism" title="Second-wave feminism">Feminist Movement</a></li>

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<li><a href="Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a></li>

<li><a href="September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a></li>

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<li><a href="COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">By topic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Outline_of_the_history_of_the_United_States" title="Outline of the history of the United States">Outline of U.S. history</a></li>

<li><a href="Demographic_history_of_the_United_States" title="Demographic history of the United States">Demographic</a></li>

<li><a href="Timeline_of_United_States_discoveries" title="Timeline of United States discoveries">Discoveries</a></li>

<li><a href="Economic_history_of_the_United_States" title="Economic history of the United States">Economic</a></li>

<li><a href="Timeline_of_United_States_inventions" title="Timeline of United States inventions">Inventions</a></li>

<li><a href="Military_history_of_the_United_States" title="Military history of the United States">Military</a></li>

<li><a href="Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the United States">Postal</a></li>

<li><a href="Technological_and_industrial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Technological and industrial history of the United States">Technological and industrial</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="Geography_of_the_United_States" title="Geography of the United States">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="U.S._territorial_sovereignty" title="U.S. territorial sovereignty">Territory</a>

<ul><li><a href="Contiguous_United_States" title="Contiguous United States">Contiguous United States</a></li>

<li><a href="County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">counties</a></li>

<li><a href="Washington%2C_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">federal district</a></li>

<li><a href="Federal_enclave" title="Federal enclave">federal enclaves</a></li>

<li><a href="Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservations</a></li>

<li><a href="Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">insular zones</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">minor outlying islands</a></li>

<li><a href="Lists_of_populated_places_in_the_United_States" title="Lists of populated places in the United States">populated places</a></li>

<li><a href="U.S._state" title="U.S. state">states</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="List_of_earthquakes_in_the_United_States" title="List of earthquakes in the United States">Earthquakes</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_extreme_points_of_the_United_States" title="List of extreme points of the United States">Extreme points</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_islands_of_the_United_States" title="List of islands of the United States">Islands</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_mountains_of_the_United_States" title="List of mountains of the United States">Mountains</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_mountain_peaks_of_the_United_States" title="List of mountain peaks of the United States">peaks</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_mountain_ranges#United_States" title="List of mountain ranges">ranges</a></li>

<li><a href="Appalachian_Mountains" title="Appalachian Mountains">Appalachian</a></li>

<li><a href="Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky</a></li>

<li><a href="Sierra_Nevada" title="Sierra Nevada">Sierra Nevada</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_areas_in_the_United_States_National_Park_System" title="List of areas in the United States National Park System">National Parks</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="List_of_regions_of_the_United_States" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a>

<ul><li><a href="East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a></li>

<li><a href="West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">West Coast</a></li>

<li><a href="Great_Plains" title="Great Plains">Great Plains</a></li>

<li><a href="Mid-Atlantic_(United_States)" title="Mid-Atlantic (United States)">Mid-Atlantic</a></li>

<li><a href="Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwestern</a></li>

<li><a href="New_England" title="New England">New England</a></li>

<li><a href="West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">Pacific</a></li>

<li><a href="Central_United_States" title="Central United States">Central</a></li>

<li><a href="Eastern_United_States" title="Eastern United States">Eastern</a></li>

<li><a href="Northern_United_States" title="Northern United States">Northern</a></li>

<li><a href="Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States">Northeastern</a></li>

<li><a href="Northwestern_United_States" title="Northwestern United States">Northwestern</a></li>

<li><a href="Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern</a></li>

<li><a href="Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">Southeastern</a></li>

<li><a href="Southwestern_United_States" title="Southwestern United States">Southwestern</a></li>

<li><a href="Western_United_States" title="Western United States">Western</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Longest <a href="List_of_rivers_of_the_United_States" title="List of rivers of the United States">rivers</a>

<ul><li><a href="Arkansas_River" title="Arkansas River">Arkansas</a></li>

<li><a href="Colorado_River" title="Colorado River">Colorado</a></li>

<li><a href="Columbia_River" title="Columbia River">Columbia</a></li>

<li><a href="Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi</a></li>

<li><a href="Missouri_River" title="Missouri River">Missouri</a></li>

<li><a href="Red_River_of_the_South" title="Red River of the South">Red (South)</a></li>

<li><a href="Rio_Grande" title="Rio Grande">Rio Grande</a></li>

<li><a href="Yukon_River" title="Yukon River">Yukon</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_the_United_States" title="Water supply and sanitation in the United States">Water supply and sanitation</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_the_United_States" title="List of World Heritage Sites in the United States">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">Federal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Executive</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a>

<ul><li><a href="Powers_of_the_president_of_the_United_States" title="Powers of the president of the United States">powers</a></li>

<li><a href="Executive_Office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States" title="Executive Office of the President of the United States">Executive Office</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a></li>

<li><a href="Cabinet_of_the_United_States" title="Cabinet of the United States">Cabinet</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_federal_executive_departments" title="United States federal executive departments">Executive departments</a></li>

<li><a href="Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent agencies of the United States government">Independent agencies</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Intelligence_Community" title="United States Intelligence Community">Intelligence Community</a>

<ul><li><a href="Director_of_National_Intelligence" title="Director of National Intelligence">Director of National Intelligence</a></li>

<li><a href="Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Reconnaissance_Office" title="National Reconnaissance Office">National Reconnaissance Office</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Federal_law_enforcement_in_the_United_States" title="Federal law enforcement in the United States">Law enforcement</a>

<li><a href="Bureau_of_Diplomatic_Security" title="Bureau of Diplomatic Security">Diplomatic Security</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">Marshals</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Secret_Service" title="United States Secret Service">Secret Service</a></li>

<li><a href="Office_of_Inspector_General_(United_States)" title="Office of Inspector General (United States)">Inspector generals</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_federal_civil_service" title="United States federal civil service">Civil service</a></li>

<li><a href="Public_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Public policy of the United States">Public policy</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Legislative</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_current_United_States_representatives" title="List of current United States representatives">current members</a></li>

<li><a href="Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_current_United_States_senators" title="List of current United States senators">current members</a></li>

<li><a href="President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="President pro tempore of the United States Senate">President pro tempore</a></li>

<li><a href="Vice_President_of_the_United_States#President_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Vice President of the United States">President</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Capitol_Police" title="United States Capitol Police">Capitol Police</a></li>

<li><a href="Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="Congressional_Budget_Office" title="Congressional Budget Office">Congressional Budget Office</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Government_Accountability_Office" title="United States Government Accountability Office">Government Accountability Office</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Government_Publishing_Office" title="United States Government Publishing Office">Government Publishing Office</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Federal_judiciary_of_the_United_States" title="Federal judiciary of the United States">Judicial</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a>

<ul><li><a href="Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice</a></li>

<li><a href="Associate_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States">Associate Justices</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_courts_of_appeals" title="United States courts of appeals">Courts of appeals</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_current_United_States_circuit_judges" title="List of current United States circuit judges">list of judges</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="United_States_district_court" title="United States district court">District courts</a>/<a href="United_States_territorial_court" title="United States territorial court">Territorial courts</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_United_States_district_and_territorial_courts" title="List of United States district and territorial courts">list of courts</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_current_United_States_district_judges" title="List of current United States district judges">list of judges</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Federal_tribunals_in_the_United_States" title="Federal tribunals in the United States">Other tribunals</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney">U.S. attorney</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Law_of_the_United_States" title="Law of the United States">Law</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a>

<ul><li><a href="Civil_liberties_in_the_United_States" title="Civil liberties in the United States">civil liberties</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Code_of_Federal_Regulations" title="Code of Federal Regulations">Code of Federal Regulations</a></li>

<li><a href="Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution</a>

<ul><li><a href="Federalism_in_the_United_States" title="Federalism in the United States">federalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Federal_preemption" title="Federal preemption">preemption</a></li>

<li><a href="Separation_of_powers_under_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Separation of powers under the United States Constitution">separation of powers</a></li>

<li><a href="Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Code" title="United States Code">United States Code</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Uniformed_services_of_the_United_States" title="Uniformed services of the United States">Uniformed</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">Armed Forces</a>

<li><a href="United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">Marine Corps</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">Air Force</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Space_Force" title="United States Space Force">Space Force</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">Coast Guard</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Guard_(United_States)" title="National Guard (United States)">National Guard</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="NOAA_Commissioned_Officer_Corps" title="NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps">NOAA Corps</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Public_Health_Service_Commissioned_Corps" title="United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps">Public Health Service Corps</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="State_governments_of_the_United_States" title="State governments of the United States">State</a>,<br><a href="Government_of_the_District_of_Columbia" title="Government of the District of Columbia">Federal District</a>,<br>and <a href="Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">Territorial</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="State_constitutional_officer" title="State constitutional officer">Executive</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Governor_(United_States)" title="Governor (United States)">Governor</a>

<li><a href="Lieutenant_governor_(United_States)" title="Lieutenant governor (United States)">Lieutenant governor</a>

<li><a href="Secretary_of_state_(U.S._state_government)" title="Secretary of state (U.S. state government)">Secretary of state</a></li>

<li><a href="State_attorney_general" title="State attorney general">Attorney general</a></li>

<li><a href="State_treasurer" title="State treasurer">Treasurer</a></li>

<li><a href="State_auditor" title="State auditor">Auditor/Comptroller</a></li>

<li><a href="Agriculture_commissioner" title="Agriculture commissioner">Agriculture commissioner</a></li>

<li><a href="Insurance_commissioner" title="Insurance commissioner">Insurance commissioner</a></li>

<li><a href="Public_utilities_commission" title="Public utilities commission">Public utilities commission</a></li>

<li><a href="State_police_(United_States)" title="State police (United States)">State police</a>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="State_legislature_(United_States)" title="State legislature (United States)">Legislative</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_United_States_state_legislatures" title="List of United States state legislatures">List of legislatures</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_U.S._state_legislators" title="List of U.S. state legislators">List of legislators</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="State_court_(United_States)" title="State court (United States)">Judicial</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="State_supreme_court" title="State supreme court">Supreme courts</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_state_chief_justices" title="List of state chief justices">Chief justices</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="District_attorney" title="District attorney">District attorney</a>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="State_law_(United_States)" title="State law (United States)">Law</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="State_constitutions_in_the_United_States" title="State constitutions in the United States">State constitutions</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_U.S._state_statutory_codes" title="List of U.S. state statutory codes">Statutory codes</a></li>

<li><a href="Uniform_act" title="Uniform act">Uniform act</a></li>

<li><a href="Comparison_of_U.S._state_and_territory_governments" title="Comparison of U.S. state and territory governments">Comparison of governments</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Tribe_(Native_American)" title="Tribe (Native American)">Tribal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_United_States" title="Tribal sovereignty in the United States">Tribal sovereignty</a></li>

<li><a href="Native_American_recognition_in_the_United_States" title="Native American recognition in the United States">Native American recognition in the United States</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_federally_recognized_tribes_in_the_contiguous_United_States" title="List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States">Federally recognized tribes</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_Alaska_Native_tribal_entities" title="List of Alaska Native tribal entities">Federally recognized Alaska Native tribes</a></li>

<li><a href="State-recognized_tribes_in_the_United_States" title="State-recognized tribes in the United States">State-recognized tribes</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservation</a>

<li><a href="Hawaiian_home_land" title="Hawaiian home land">Hawaiian home land</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Local_government_in_the_United_States" title="Local government in the United States">Local</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_United_States_counties_and_county_equivalents" title="List of United States counties and county equivalents">List of counties and county equivalents</a></li>

<li><a href="County_executive" title="County executive">County executive</a></li>

<li><a href="Sheriffs_in_the_United_States" title="Sheriffs in the United States">Sheriff</a></li>

<li><a href="Municipal_clerk" title="Municipal clerk">Clerk</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">Consolidated city-county</a></li>

<li><a href="Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent city</a></li>

<li><a href="Coterminous_municipality" title="Coterminous municipality">Coterminous municipality</a></li>

<li><a href="Municipal_charter#United_States" title="Municipal charter">Charter</a></li>

<li><a href="Mayor%E2%80%93council_government" title="Mayor–council government">Mayor–council government</a></li>

<li><a href="Council%E2%80%93manager_government" title="Council–manager government">Council–manager government</a></li>

<li><a href="City_commission_government" title="City commission government">City commission government</a></li>

<li><a href="Mayoralty_in_the_United_States" title="Mayoralty in the United States">Mayor</a></li>

<li><a href="City_manager" title="City manager">City manager</a></li>

<li><a href="Municipal_council#United_States" title="Municipal council">City council</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Minor_civil_division" title="Minor civil division">Minor divisions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Civil_township" title="Civil township">Township</a></li>

<li><a href="Town_meeting" title="Town meeting">Town meeting</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Special_district_(United_States)" title="Special district (United States)">Special district</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="School_district" title="School district">School district</a>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Corruption_in_the_United_States" title="Corruption in the United States">Corruption</a></li>

<li><a href="Democratic_backsliding_in_the_United_States" title="Democratic backsliding in the United States">Democratic backsliding</a></li>

<li><a href="Elections_in_the_United_States" title="Elections in the United States">Elections</a>

<ul><li><a href="United_States_Electoral_College" title="United States Electoral College">Electoral College</a></li>

<li><a href="Red_states_and_blue_states" title="Red states and blue states">Red states and blue states</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Foreign_relations_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign relations of the United States">Foreign relations</a>

<ul><li><a href="Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign policy of the United States">foreign policy</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Imperial_presidency" title="Imperial presidency">Imperial presidency</a></li>

<li><a href="Political_ideologies_in_the_United_States" title="Political ideologies in the United States">Ideologies</a>

<ul><li><a href="Anti-Americanism" title="Anti-Americanism">Anti-Americanism</a></li>

<li><a href="American_exceptionalism" title="American exceptionalism">exceptionalism</a></li>

<li><a href="American_nationalism" title="American nationalism">nationalism</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Political_parties_in_the_United_States" title="Political parties in the United States">Parties</a>

<ul><li><a href="Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></li>

<li><a href="Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></li>

<li><a href="Third_party_(U.S._politics)" title="Third party (U.S. politics)">Third parties</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States" title="List of federal political scandals in the United States">Scandals</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="Economy_of_the_United_States" title="Economy of the United States">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Economy_of_the_United_States_by_sector" title="Economy of the United States by sector">By sector</a>

<ul><li><a href="Agriculture_in_the_United_States" title="Agriculture in the United States">Agriculture</a></li>

<li><a href="Banking_in_the_United_States" title="Banking in the United States">Banking</a></li>

<li><a href="Communications_in_the_United_States" title="Communications in the United States">Communications</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_companies_of_the_United_States_by_state" title="List of companies of the United States by state">Companies</a></li>

<li><a href="Energy_in_the_United_States" title="Energy in the United States">Energy</a></li>

<li><a href="Insurance_in_the_United_States" title="Insurance in the United States">Insurance</a></li>

<li><a href="Manufacturing_in_the_United_States" title="Manufacturing in the United States">Manufacturing</a></li>

<li><a href="Mining_in_the_United_States" title="Mining in the United States">Mining</a></li>

<li><a href="Science_and_technology_in_the_United_States" title="Science and technology in the United States">Science and technology</a></li>

<li><a href="Tourism_in_the_United_States" title="Tourism in the United States">Tourism</a></li>

<li><a href="Foreign_trade_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign trade of the United States">Trade</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_companies_of_the_United_States_by_state" title="List of companies of the United States by state">by state</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">Currency</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_exports_of_the_United_States" title="List of exports of the United States">Exports</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_federal_budget" title="United States federal budget">Federal budget</a></li>

<li><a href="Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_the_United_States" title="Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States">Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States</a></li>

<li><a href="Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve System</a></li>

<li><a href="Financial_position_of_the_United_States" title="Financial position of the United States">Financial position</a></li>

<li><a href="Labor_unions_in_the_United_States" title="Labor unions in the United States">Labor unions</a></li>

<li><a href="National_debt_of_the_United_States" title="National debt of the United States">Public debt</a></li>

<li><a href="Social_programs_in_the_United_States" title="Social programs in the United States">Social welfare programs</a></li>

<li><a href="Taxation_in_the_United_States" title="Taxation in the United States">Taxation</a></li>

<li><a href="Unemployment_in_the_United_States" title="Unemployment in the United States">Unemployment</a></li>

<li><a href="Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Transport_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Transport in the United States">Transport</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Aviation_in_the_United_States" title="Aviation in the United States">Aviation</a></li>

<li><a href="Driving_in_the_United_States" title="Driving in the United States">Driving</a></li>

<li><a href="Public_transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Public transportation in the United States">Public transportation</a></li>

<li><a href="Rail_transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Rail transportation in the United States">Rail transportation</a></li>

<li><a href="Transportation_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Transportation policy of the United States">Transportation policy</a></li>

<li><a href="Transportation_safety_in_the_United_States" title="Transportation safety in the United States">Transportation safety</a></li>

<li><a href="Trucking_industry_in_the_United_States" title="Trucking industry in the United States">Trucking industry</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%">Society</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Culture_of_the_United_States" title="Culture of the United States">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Americana_(culture)" title="Americana (culture)">Americana</a></li>

<li><a href="Architecture_in_the_United_States" title="Architecture in the United States">Architecture</a></li>

<li><a href="Cinema_of_the_United_States" title="Cinema of the United States">Cinema</a></li>

<li><a href="Crime_in_the_United_States" title="Crime in the United States">Crime</a></li>

<li><a href="American_cuisine" title="American cuisine">Cuisine</a></li>

<li><a href="Dance_in_the_United_States" title="Dance in the United States">Dance</a></li>

<li><a href="Demographics_of_the_United_States" title="Demographics of the United States">Demographics</a></li>

<li><a href="Economy_of_the_United_States" title="Economy of the United States">Economic issues</a>

<ul><li><a href="Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">affluence</a></li>

<li><a href="Eviction_in_the_United_States" title="Eviction in the United States">eviction</a></li>

<li><a href="Homeownership_in_the_United_States" title="Homeownership in the United States">homeownership</a></li>

<li><a href="Household_income_in_the_United_States" title="Household income in the United States">household income</a></li>

<li><a href="Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">income inequality</a></li>

<li><a href="American_middle_class" title="American middle class">middle class</a></li>

<li><a href="Personal_income_in_the_United_States" title="Personal income in the United States">personal income</a></li>

<li><a href="Poverty_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty in the United States">poverty</a></li>

<li><a href="Standard_of_living_in_the_United_States" title="Standard of living in the United States">standard of living</a></li>

<li><a href="Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">wealth</a></li>

<li><a href="Working_class_in_the_United_States" title="Working class in the United States">working class</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Education_in_the_United_States" title="Education in the United States">Education</a>

<ul><li><a href="Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States" title="Educational attainment in the United States">attainment</a></li>

<li><a href="Literacy_in_the_United_States" title="Literacy in the United States">literacy</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Family_in_the_United_States" title="Family in the United States">Family</a></li>

<li><a href="Fashion_in_the_United_States" title="Fashion in the United States">Fashion</a></li>

<li><a href="Folklore_of_the_United_States" title="Folklore of the United States">Folklore</a></li>

<li><a href="Public_holidays_in_the_United_States" title="Public holidays in the United States">Holidays</a>

<ul><li><a href="Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States" title="Federal holidays in the United States">Federal holidays</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Homelessness_in_the_United_States" title="Homelessness in the United States">Homelessness</a></li>

<li><a href="Housing_in_the_United_States" title="Housing in the United States">Housing</a></li>

<li><a href="Human_rights_in_the_United_States" title="Human rights in the United States">Human rights</a></li>

<li><a href="Languages_of_the_United_States" title="Languages of the United States">Languages</a>

<ul><li><a href="American_English" title="American English">American English</a></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous languages of the Americas">Indigenous languages</a></li>

<li><a href="American_literature" title="American literature">Literature</a></li>

<li><a href="Mass_media_in_the_United_States" title="Mass media in the United States">Media</a>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_American_journalism" title="History of American journalism">journalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Internet_in_the_United_States" title="Internet in the United States">internet</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_American_newspapers" title="History of American newspapers">newspapers</a></li>

<li><a href="Radio_in_the_United_States" title="Radio in the United States">radio</a></li>

<li><a href="Television_in_the_United_States" title="Television in the United States">television</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Music_of_the_United_States" title="Music of the United States">Music</a></li>

<li><a href="Naming_in_the_United_States" title="Naming in the United States">Names</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Star-Spangled_Banner" title="The Star-Spangled Banner">National anthem</a></li>

<li><a href="National_symbols_of_the_United_States" title="National symbols of the United States">National symbols</a>

<ul><li><a href="Columbia_(personification)" title="Columbia (personification)">Columbia</a></li>

<li><a href="Mount_Rushmore" title="Mount Rushmore">Mount Rushmore</a></li>

<li><a href="Statue_of_Liberty" title="Statue of Liberty">Statue of Liberty</a></li>

<li><a href="Uncle_Sam" title="Uncle Sam">Uncle Sam</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Americans" title="Americans">People</a></li>

<li><a href="American_philosophy" title="American philosophy">Philosophy</a></li>

<li><a href="Political_ideologies_in_the_United_States" title="Political ideologies in the United States">Political ideologies</a></li>

<li><a href="Religion_in_the_United_States" title="Religion in the United States">Religion</a></li>

<li><a href="Sexuality_in_the_United_States" title="Sexuality in the United States">Sexuality</a></li>

<li><a href="Social_class_in_the_United_States" title="Social class in the United States">Social class</a></li>

<li><a href="Society_of_the_United_States" title="Society of the United States">Society</a></li>

<li><a href="Sports_in_the_United_States" title="Sports in the United States">Sports</a>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_sports_in_the_United_States" title="History of sports in the United States">history</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Theater_in_the_United_States" title="Theater in the United States">Theater</a></li>

<li><a href="Transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Transportation in the United States">Transportation</a></li>

<li><a href="Video_games_in_the_United_States" title="Video games in the United States">Video games</a></li>

<li><a href="Visual_art_of_the_United_States" title="Visual art of the United States">Visual art</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Social_class_in_the_United_States" title="Social class in the United States">Social class</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">Affluence</a></li>

<li><a href="American_Dream" title="American Dream">American Dream</a></li>

<li><a href="Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States" title="Educational attainment in the United States">Educational attainment</a></li>

<li><a href="Homelessness_in_the_United_States" title="Homelessness in the United States">Homelessness</a></li>

<li><a href="Homeownership_in_the_United_States" title="Homeownership in the United States">Homeownership</a></li>

<li><a href="Household_income_in_the_United_States" title="Household income in the United States">Household income</a></li>

<li><a href="Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">Income inequality</a></li>

<li><a href="American_middle_class" title="American middle class">Middle class</a></li>

<li><a href="Personal_income_in_the_United_States" title="Personal income in the United States">Personal income</a></li>

<li><a href="Poverty_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty in the United States">Poverty</a></li>

<li><a href="Standard_of_living_in_the_United_States" title="Standard of living in the United States">Standard of living</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Health_in_the_United_States" title="Health in the United States">Health</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Aging_of_the_United_States" title="Aging of the United States">Aging</a></li>

<li><a href="Healthcare_in_the_United_States" title="Healthcare in the United States">Healthcare</a>

<ul><li><a href="Abortion_in_the_United_States" title="Abortion in the United States">Abortion</a></li>

<li><a href="Birth_control_in_the_United_States" title="Birth control in the United States">Birth control</a></li>

<li><a href="Prenatal_care_in_the_United_States" title="Prenatal care in the United States">Prenatal care</a></li>

<li><a href="Hospice_care_in_the_United_States" title="Hospice care in the United States">Hospice care</a></li>

<li><a href="Immigrant_health_care_in_the_United_States" title="Immigrant health care in the United States">Immigrant health care</a></li>

<li><a href="Healthcare_rationing_in_the_United_States" title="Healthcare rationing in the United States">Rationing</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Health_care_finance_in_the_United_States" title="Health care finance in the United States">Health care finance</a>

<ul><li><a href="Health_insurance_costs_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance costs in the United States">Health insurance costs</a></li>

<li><a href="Health_care_prices_in_the_United_States" title="Health care prices in the United States">Health care prices</a></li>

<li><a href="Prescription_drug_prices_in_the_United_States" title="Prescription drug prices in the United States">Prescription drug prices</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Disability_in_the_United_States" title="Disability in the United States">Disability</a></li>

<li><a href="Health_insurance_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance in the United States">Health insurance</a></li>

<li><a href="Food_safety_in_the_United_States" title="Food safety in the United States">Food safety</a></li>

<li><a href="Physician_shortage_in_the_United_States" title="Physician shortage in the United States">Physician shortage</a></li>

<li><a href="Poverty_and_health_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty and health in the United States">Poverty and health</a></li>

<li><a href="Race_and_health_in_the_United_States" title="Race and health in the United States">Race and health</a></li>

<li><a href="Obesity_in_the_United_States" title="Obesity in the United States">Obesity</a></li>

<li><a href="Medical_deserts_in_the_United_States" title="Medical deserts in the United States">Medical deserts</a></li>

<li><a href="Women's_reproductive_health_in_the_United_States" title="Women's reproductive health in the United States">Women's reproductive health</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy" title="List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy">Life expectancy</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Issues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States" title="Capital punishment in the United States">Capital punishment</a></li>

<li><a href="Crime_in_the_United_States" title="Crime in the United States">Crime</a>

<ul><li><a href="Incarceration_in_the_United_States" title="Incarceration in the United States">incarceration</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Criticism_of_the_United_States_government" title="Criticism of the United States government">Criticism of government</a></li>

<li><a href="Discrimination_in_the_United_States" title="Discrimination in the United States">Discrimination</a>

<ul><li><a href="Affirmative_action_in_the_United_States" title="Affirmative action in the United States">affirmative action</a></li>

<li><a href="Antisemitism_in_the_United_States" title="Antisemitism in the United States">antisemitism</a></li>

<li><a href="Intersex_rights_in_the_United_States" title="Intersex rights in the United States">intersex rights</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamophobia_in_the_United_States" title="Islamophobia in the United States">Islamophobia</a></li>

<li><a href="LGBTQ_rights_in_the_United_States" title="LGBTQ rights in the United States">LGBTQ rights</a></li>

<li><a href="Racism_in_the_United_States" title="Racism in the United States">racism</a></li>

<li><a href="Racism_against_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Racism against Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a></li>

<li><a href="Racism_against_African_Americans" title="Racism against African Americans">African American</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Energy_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Energy policy of the United States">Energy policy</a></li>

<li><a href="Environmental_issues_in_the_United_States" title="Environmental issues in the United States">Environmental issues</a>

<ul><li><a href="Environmental_movement_in_the_United_States" title="Environmental movement in the United States">Environmental movement</a></li>

<li><a href="Climate_change_in_the_United_States" title="Climate change in the United States">Climate change</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Gun_politics_in_the_United_States" title="Gun politics in the United States">Gun politics</a></li>

<li><a href="Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States" title="Mass shootings in the United States">Mass shootings</a></li>

<li><a href="Hunger_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunger in the United States">Hunger</a></li>

<li><a href="Tobacco_in_the_United_States" title="Tobacco in the United States">Smoking</a></li>

<li><a href="Human_rights_in_the_United_States" title="Human rights in the United States">Human rights</a></li>

<li><a href="Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">Immigration</a>

<ul><li><a href="Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Illegal immigration to the United States">illegal</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="National_security_of_the_United_States" title="National security of the United States">National security</a>

<ul><li><a href="Terrorism_in_the_United_States" title="Terrorism in the United States">Terrorism</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States" title="Opioid epidemic in the United States">Opioid epidemic</a></li>

<li><a href="Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States" title="Separation of church and state in the United States">Separation of church and state</a></li>

<li><a href="Xenophobia_in_the_United_States" title="Xenophobia in the United States">Xenophobia</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;;font-weight:bold;"><div><div style="margin-bottom:-0.4em;"><ul><li><span class="nobold"><a href="Outline_of_the_United_States" title="Outline of the United States">Outline</a></span></li><li><span class="nobold"><a href="Outline_of_the_United_States" title="Outline of the United States">Index</a></span></li></ul></div>

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<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="History_of_the_United_States495" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="History_of_the_United_States495" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="History_of_the_United_States" title="History of the United States">History of the United States</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold;"><div>

<ul><li><a href="Timeline_of_United_States_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of United States history">Timeline</a></li>

<li><a href="Outline_of_United_States_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Outline of United States history">Outline</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Events495" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Events</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-Colonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><b><a href="Geological_history_of_North_America" title="Geological history of North America">Geological</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Pre-Columbian_era" title="Pre-Columbian era">Pre-Columbian era</a></b></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Colonial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Colonial history of the United States">Colonial</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Exploration_of_North_America" title="Exploration of North America">Exploration of North America</a></li>

<li><a href="European_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="European colonization of the Americas">European colonization</a></li>

<li><a href="Native_American_disease_and_epidemics" title="Native American disease and epidemics">Native American epidemics</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Jamestown%2C_Virginia_(1607%E2%80%931699)" title="History of Jamestown, Virginia (1607–1699)">Settlement of Jamestown</a></li>

<li><a href="Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a></li>

<li><a href="Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a></li>

<li><a href="King_William's_War" title="King William's War">King William's War</a></li>

<li><a href="Queen_Anne's_War" title="Queen Anne's War">Queen Anne's War</a></li>

<li><a href="Dummer's_War" title="Dummer's War">Dummer's War</a></li>

<li><a href="First_Great_Awakening" title="First Great Awakening">First Great Awakening</a></li>

<li><a href="War_of_Jenkins'_Ear" title="War of Jenkins' Ear">War of Jenkins' Ear</a></li>

<li><a href="King_George's_War" title="King George's War">King George's War</a></li>

<li><a href="American_Revolution#Origin" title="American Revolution">Prelude to Revolution</a>

<ul><li><a href="American_Enlightenment" title="American Enlightenment">American Enlightenment</a></li>

<li><a href="French_and_Indian_War" title="French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a></li>

<li><a href="Royal_Proclamation_of_1763" title="Royal Proclamation of 1763">Proclamation of 1763</a></li>

<li><a href="Sugar_Act" title="Sugar Act">Sugar Act</a></li>

<li><a href="Stamp_Act_Congress" title="Stamp Act Congress">Stamp Act Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="Sons_of_Liberty" title="Sons of Liberty">Sons of Liberty</a></li>

<li><a href="Boston_Massacre" title="Boston Massacre">Boston Massacre</a></li>

<li><a href="Boston_Tea_Party" title="Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a></li>

<li><a href="Intolerable_Acts" title="Intolerable Acts">Intolerable Acts</a></li>

<li><a href="First_Continental_Congress" title="First Continental Congress">First Continental Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="Continental_Association" title="Continental Association">Continental Association</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1776%E2%80%931789)" title="History of the United States (1776–1789)">1776–1789</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>

<li><a href="Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a></li>

<li><a href="Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)" title="Treaty of Paris (1783)">Treaty of Paris</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Confederation_period" title="Confederation period">Confederation period</a>

<ul><li><a href="Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> <a href="Perpetual_Union" title="Perpetual Union">and Perpetual Union</a></li>

<li><a href="Pennsylvania_Mutiny_of_1783" title="Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783">Pennsylvania Mutiny</a></li>

<li><a href="Shays'_Rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="Shays' Rebellion">Shays' Rebellion</a></li>

<li><a href="Northwest_Ordinance" title="Northwest Ordinance">Northwest Ordinance</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_United_States_Constitution" title="History of the United States Constitution">Drafting and ratification of the Constitution</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1789%E2%80%931815)" title="History of the United States (1789–1815)">1789–1815</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a></li>

<li><a href="Federalist_Era" title="Federalist Era">Federalist Era</a>

<ul><li><a href="Whiskey_Rebellion" title="Whiskey Rebellion">Whiskey Rebellion</a></li>

<li><a href="Quasi-War" title="Quasi-War">Quasi-War</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Jeffersonian_democracy" title="Jeffersonian democracy">Jeffersonian era</a>

<ul><li><a href="Louisiana_Purchase" title="Louisiana Purchase">Louisiana Purchase</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1815%E2%80%931849)" title="History of the United States (1815–1849)">1815–1849</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Era_of_Good_Feelings" title="Era of Good Feelings">Era of Good Feelings</a>

<ul><li><a href="Missouri_Compromise" title="Missouri Compromise">Missouri Compromise</a></li>

<li><a href="Monroe_Doctrine" title="Monroe Doctrine">Monroe Doctrine</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Jacksonian_democracy" title="Jacksonian democracy">Jacksonian era</a>

<ul><li><a href="Trail_of_Tears" title="Trail of Tears">Trail of Tears</a></li>

<li><a href="Nat_Turner's_slave_rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="Nat Turner's slave rebellion">Nat Turner's slave rebellion</a></li>

<li><a href="Nullification_crisis" title="Nullification crisis">Nullification crisis</a></li>

<li><a href="Manifest_destiny" title="Manifest destiny">Westward expansion</a></li>

<li><a href="Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">Mexican–American War</a></li>

<li><a href="Seneca_Falls_Convention" title="Seneca Falls Convention">Seneca Falls Convention</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Industrial_Revolution#United_States" title="Industrial Revolution">First Industrial Revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Second_Great_Awakening" title="Second Great Awakening">Second Great Awakening</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1849%E2%80%931865)" title="History of the United States (1849–1865)">1849–1865</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Antebellum_South" title="Antebellum South">Antebellum Era</a></li>

<li><a href="California_Gold_Rush" class="mw-redirect" title="California Gold Rush">California Gold Rush</a></li>

<li><a href="Greater_Reconstruction" title="Greater Reconstruction">Greater Reconstruction</a></li>

<li><a href="Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Origins of the American Civil War">Prelude to War</a>

<ul><li><a href="Compromise_of_1850" title="Compromise of 1850">Compromise of 1850</a></li>

<li><a href="Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850" title="Fugitive Slave Act of 1850">Fugitive Slave Act</a></li>

<li><a href="Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act" title="Kansas–Nebraska Act">Kansas–Nebraska Act</a>

<ul><li><a href="Bleeding_Kansas" title="Bleeding Kansas">Bleeding Kansas</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Dred_Scott_v._Sandford" title="Dred Scott v. Sandford">Dred Scott decision</a></li>

<li><a href="1860_United_States_presidential_election" title="1860 United States presidential election">Election of Lincoln</a></li>

<li><a href="Confederate_States_of_America#Secession" title="Confederate States of America">Secession</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>

<ul><li><a href="Emancipation_Proclamation" title="Emancipation Proclamation">Emancipation Proclamation</a></li>

<li><a href="Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Assassination of Abraham Lincoln">Assassination of Abraham Lincoln</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1865%E2%80%931917)" title="History of the United States (1865–1917)">1865–1917</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a>

<ul><li><a href="Reconstruction_Amendments" title="Reconstruction Amendments">Amendments</a></li>

<li><a href="First_transcontinental_railroad" title="First transcontinental railroad">First transcontinental railroad</a></li>

<li><a href="Enforcement_Acts" title="Enforcement Acts">Enforcement Acts</a></li>

<li><a href="Compromise_of_1877" title="Compromise of 1877">Compromise of 1877</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Second_Industrial_Revolution#United_States" title="Second Industrial Revolution">Second Industrial Revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Gilded_Age" title="Gilded Age">Gilded Age</a>

<ul><li><a href="The_Gospel_of_Wealth" title="The Gospel of Wealth">The Gospel of Wealth</a></li>

<li><a href="Assassination_of_James_A._Garfield" title="Assassination of James A. Garfield">Assassination of James A. Garfield</a></li>

<li><a href="Chinese_Exclusion_Act" title="Chinese Exclusion Act">Chinese Exclusion Act</a></li>

<li><a href="Pendleton_Civil_Service_Reform_Act" title="Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act">Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act</a></li>

<li><a href="Haymarket_affair" title="Haymarket affair">Haymarket affair</a></li>

<li><a href="Sherman_Antitrust_Act" title="Sherman Antitrust Act">Sherman Antitrust Act</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Progressive_Era" title="Progressive Era">Progressive Era</a>

<ul><li><a href="Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a></li>

<li><a href="American_imperialism" class="mw-redirect" title="American imperialism">Imperialism</a></li>

<li><a href="Assassination_of_William_McKinley" title="Assassination of William McKinley">Assassination of William McKinley</a></li>

<li><a href="Square_Deal" title="Square Deal">Square Deal</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Nadir_of_American_race_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Nadir of American race relations">Nadir of American race relations</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1917%E2%80%931945)" title="History of the United States (1917–1945)">1917–1945</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="United_States_in_World_War_I" title="United States in World War I">World War I</a>

<ul><li><a href="Paris_Peace_Conference_(1919%E2%80%931920)#American_approach" title="Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)">Paris Peace Conference</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="First_Red_Scare" title="First Red Scare">First Red Scare</a></li>

<li><a href="Roaring_Twenties" title="Roaring Twenties">Roaring Twenties</a>

<ul><li><a href="Prohibition_in_the_United_States" title="Prohibition in the United States">Prohibition</a></li>

<li><a href="Women's_suffrage_in_the_United_States" title="Women's suffrage in the United States">Women's suffrage</a></li>

<li><a href="Tulsa_race_massacre" title="Tulsa race massacre">Tulsa race massacre</a></li>

<li><a href="Ku_Klux_Klan#Second_Klan:_1915–1944" title="Ku Klux Klan">Second Klan</a></li>

<li><a href="Bath_School_disaster" title="Bath School disaster">Bath School disaster</a></li>

<li><a href="Harlem_Renaissance" title="Harlem Renaissance">Harlem Renaissance</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Great_Depression_in_the_United_States" title="Great Depression in the United States">Great Depression</a>

<ul><li><a href="Wall_Street_crash_of_1929" title="Wall Street crash of 1929">Wall Street crash of 1929</a></li>

<li><a href="Military_history_of_the_United_States_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the United States during World War II">World War II</a>

<ul><li><a href="Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_home_front_during_World_War_II" title="United States home front during World War II">home front</a></li>

<li><a href="Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a>

<ul><li><a href="Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1945%E2%80%931964)" title="History of the United States (1945–1964)">1945–1964</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="United_States_strike_wave_of_1945%E2%80%931946" title="United States strike wave of 1945–1946">Strike wave of 1945–1946</a></li>

<li><a href="Cold_War_(1947%E2%80%931948)" title="Cold War (1947–1948)">Start of Cold War</a>

<ul><li><a href="Truman_Doctrine" title="Truman Doctrine">Truman Doctrine</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Cold_War_(1948%E2%80%931953)" title="Cold War (1948–1953)">Early Cold War</a>

<ul><li><a href="North_Atlantic_Treaty" title="North Atlantic Treaty">North Atlantic Treaty</a></li>

<li><a href="Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a></li>

<li><a href="McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Project_Mercury" title="Project Mercury">Project Mercury</a></li>

<li><a href="Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">Civil Rights Movement</a></li>

<li><a href="Cold_War_(1953%E2%80%931962)" title="Cold War (1953–1962)">Early–mid Cold War</a>

<ul><li><a href="Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Assassination of John F. Kennedy">Assassination of John F. Kennedy</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1964%E2%80%931980)" title="History of the United States (1964–1980)">1964–1980</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Great_Society" title="Great Society">Great Society</a></li>

<li><a href="Space_Race" title="Space Race">Space Race</a>

<ul><li><a href="Project_Gemini" title="Project Gemini">Project Gemini</a></li>

<li><a href="Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a></li></ul></li>

<ul><li><a href="D%C3%A9tente" title="Détente">Détente</a></li>

<li><a href="Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a></li>

<li><a href="Fall_of_Saigon" title="Fall of Saigon">Fall of Saigon</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.">Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.</a></li>

<li><a href="Counterculture_of_the_1960s" title="Counterculture of the 1960s">Counterculture</a></li>

<li><a href="Second-wave_feminism" title="Second-wave feminism">Second-wave feminism</a></li>

<li><a href="Gay_liberation" title="Gay liberation">Gay liberation</a>

<ul><li><a href="Stonewall_riots" title="Stonewall riots">Stonewall riots</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate scandal</a></li>

<li><a href="Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Pardon of Richard Nixon">Pardon of Richard Nixon</a></li>

<li><a href="Iran_hostage_crisis" title="Iran hostage crisis">Iran hostage crisis</a></li>

<li><a href="Moral_Majority" title="Moral Majority">Moral Majority</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1980%E2%80%931991)" title="History of the United States (1980–1991)">1980–1991</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Reagan_era" title="Reagan era">Reagan era</a>

<ul><li><a href="Reaganomics" title="Reaganomics">Reaganomics</a></li>

<li><a href="Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair" title="Iran–Contra affair">Iran–Contra affair</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_States" title="Crack epidemic in the United States">Crack epidemic</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="United_States_invasion_of_Grenada" title="United States invasion of Grenada">Invasion of Grenada</a></li>

<li><a href="Reagan_Doctrine" title="Reagan Doctrine">Reagan Doctrine</a></li>

<li><a href="Space_Shuttle_program" title="Space Shuttle program">Space Shuttle program</a></li>

<li><a href="War_on_drugs" title="War on drugs">War on drugs</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_invasion_of_Panama" title="United States invasion of Panama">Invasion of Panama</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(1991%E2%80%932016)" title="History of the United States (1991–2016)">1991–2016</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="North American Free Trade Agreement">NAFTA</a></li>

<li><a href="1992_Los_Angeles_riots" title="1992 Los Angeles riots"> Los Angeles riots</a></li>

<li><a href="1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing" title="1993 World Trade Center bombing">WTC bombing</a></li>

<li><a href="Waco_siege" title="Waco siege">Waco siege</a></li>

<li><a href="Republican_Revolution" title="Republican Revolution">Republican Revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Oklahoma_City_bombing" title="Oklahoma City bombing">Oklahoma City bombing</a></li>

<li><a href="Columbine_High_School_massacre" title="Columbine High School massacre">Columbine</a></li>

<li><a href="September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a></li>

<li><a href="War_on_terror" title="War on terror">War on terror</a>

<ul><li><a href="War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan</a></li>

<li><a href="Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Hurricane Katrina</a></li>

<li><a href="Virginia_Tech_shooting" title="Virginia Tech shooting">Virginia Tech shooting</a></li>

<li><a href="Great_Recession_in_the_United_States" title="Great Recession in the United States">Great Recession</a></li>

<li><a href="Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden" title="Killing of Osama bin Laden">Killing of Osama bin Laden</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States" title="List of mass shootings in the United States">Rise in mass shootings</a>

<ul><li><a href="2011_Tucson_shooting" title="2011 Tucson shooting">Tucson</a></li>

<li><a href="2012_Aurora_theater_shooting" title="2012 Aurora theater shooting">Aurora</a></li>

<li><a href="Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting" title="Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting">Sandy Hook</a></li>

<li><a href="Pulse_nightclub_shooting" title="Pulse nightclub shooting">Orlando</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter">Black Lives Matter</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Obergefell_v._Hodges" title="Obergefell v. Hodges">Obergefell v. Hodges</a></i></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_the_United_States_(2016%E2%80%93present)" title="History of the United States (2016–present)">2016–present</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Unite_the_Right_rally" title="Unite the Right rally">Unite the Right rally</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States" title="List of mass shootings in the United States">Continued rise in mass shootings</a>

<ul><li><a href="2017_Las_Vegas_shooting" title="2017 Las Vegas shooting">Las Vegas</a></li>

<li><a href="Parkland_high_school_shooting" title="Parkland high school shooting">Parkland</a></li>

<li><a href="Uvalde_school_shooting" title="Uvalde school shooting">Uvalde</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">COVID-19 pandemic</a>

<ul><li><a href="COVID-19_recession" title="COVID-19 recession">recession</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="George_Floyd_protests" title="George Floyd protests">George Floyd protests</a></li>

<li><a href="January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack" title="January 6 United States Capitol attack">January 6 insurrection</a></li>

<li><a href="2020%E2%80%932021_U.S._troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan" title="2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan">Afghanistan withdrawal</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women's_Health_Organization" title="Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization">Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Foreign_involvement_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine">Support of Ukraine</a></li>

<li><a href="Donald_Trump#Investigations,_criminal_charges,_civil_lawsuits" title="Donald Trump">Indictments of Donald Trump</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Topics495" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Topics</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><b><a href="American_Century" title="American Century">American Century</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_antisemitism_in_the_United_States" title="History of antisemitism in the United States">Antisemitism</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Cultural_history_of_the_United_States" title="Cultural history of the United States">Cultural</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_cinema_in_the_United_States" title="History of cinema in the United States">Cinema</a></li>

<li><a href="Music_history_of_the_United_States" title="Music history of the United States">Music</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_American_newspapers" title="History of American newspapers">Newspapers</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_sports_in_the_United_States" title="History of sports in the United States">Sports</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="Demographic_history_of_the_United_States" title="Demographic history of the United States">Demography</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="History of immigration to the United States">Immigration</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="Economic_history_of_the_United_States" title="Economic history of the United States">Economy</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_banking_in_the_United_States" title="History of banking in the United States">Banking</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_education_in_the_United_States" title="History of education in the United States">Education</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_higher_education_in_the_United_States" title="History of higher education in the United States">Higher education</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_the_United_States_government" title="History of the United States government">Government</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_abortion_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="History of abortion in the United States">Abortion</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_capital_punishment_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="History of capital punishment in the United States">Capital punishment</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_civil_rights_in_the_United_States" title="History of civil rights in the United States">Civil Rights</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_corruption_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="History of corruption in the United States">Corruption</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_United_States_Constitution" title="History of the United States Constitution">The Constitution</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_United_States_debt_ceiling" title="History of the United States debt ceiling">Debt ceiling</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_direct_democracy_in_the_United_States" title="History of direct democracy in the United States">Direct democracy</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_United_States_foreign_policy" class="mw-redirect" title="History of United States foreign policy">Foreign policy</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_law_enforcement_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="History of law enforcement in the United States">Law enforcement</a></li>

<li><a href="Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the United States">Postal service</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_taxation_in_the_United_States" title="History of taxation in the United States">Taxation</a></li>

<li><a href="Voting_rights_in_the_United_States" title="Voting rights in the United States">Voting rights</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_American_journalism" title="History of American journalism">Journalism</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_the_United_States_Merchant_Marine" title="History of the United States Merchant Marine">Merchant Marine</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Military_history_of_the_United_States" title="Military history of the United States">Military</a></b>

<li><a href="History_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps" title="History of the United States Marine Corps">Marine Corps</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="History of the United States Air Force">Air Force</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_United_States_Space_Force" title="History of the United States Space Force">Space Force</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_United_States_Coast_Guard" title="History of the United States Coast Guard">Coast Guard</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="Political_eras_of_the_United_States" title="Political eras of the United States">Party Systems</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="First_Party_System" title="First Party System">First</a></li>

<li><a href="Second_Party_System" title="Second Party System">Second</a></li>

<li><a href="Third_Party_System" title="Third Party System">Third</a></li>

<li><a href="Fourth_Party_System" title="Fourth Party System">Fourth</a></li>

<li><a href="Fifth_Party_System" title="Fifth Party System">Fifth</a></li>

<li><a href="Sixth_Party_System" title="Sixth Party System">Sixth</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_religion_in_the_United_States" title="History of religion in the United States">Religion</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States" title="Native American genocide in the United States">Genocide</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">Slavery</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_sexual_slavery_in_the_United_States" title="History of sexual slavery in the United States">Sexual slavery</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="Technological_and_industrial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Technological and industrial history of the United States">Technology and industry</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_agriculture_in_the_United_States" title="History of agriculture in the United States">Agriculture</a></li>

<li><a href="Labor_history_of_the_United_States" title="Labor history of the United States">Labor</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_lumber_industry_in_the_United_States" title="History of the lumber industry in the United States">Lumber</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_medicine_in_the_United_States" title="History of medicine in the United States">Medicine</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_rail_transportation_in_the_United_States" title="History of rail transportation in the United States">Railway</a></li></ul></li></ul>

<ul><li><b><a href="African-American_history" title="African-American history">African American</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_Asian_Americans" title="History of Asian Americans">Asian American</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_Chinese_Americans" title="History of Chinese Americans">Chinese American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Filipino_Americans" title="History of Filipino Americans">Filipino American</a></li>

<li><a href="Indian-American_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian-American history">Indian American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Japanese_Americans" title="History of Japanese Americans">Japanese American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Korean_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Korean Americans">Korean American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Thai_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Thai Americans">Thai American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Vietnamese_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Vietnamese Americans">Vietnamese American</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="European_American" class="mw-redirect" title="European American">European American</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_Albanian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Albanian Americans">Albanian American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_English_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of English Americans">English American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Estonian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Estonian Americans">Estonian American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Finnish_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Finnish Americans">Finnish American</a></li>

<li><a href="Irish_Americans#History" title="Irish Americans">Irish American</a></li>

<li><a href="Italian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian American">Italian American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Lithuanian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Lithuanian Americans">Lithuanian American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Poles_in_the_United_States" title="History of Poles in the United States">Polish American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Serbian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Serbian Americans">Serbian American</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic and Latino American</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_Mexican_Americans" title="History of Mexican Americans">Mexican American</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_the_Jews_in_the_United_States" title="History of the Jews in the United States">Jewish American</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_Middle_Eastern_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Middle Eastern Americans">Middle Eastern American</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="History_of_Egyptian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Egyptian Americans">Egyptian American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Iranian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Iranian Americans">Iranian American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Iraqi_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Iraqi Americans">Iraqi American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Lebanese_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Lebanese Americans">Lebanese American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Palestinian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Palestinian Americans">Palestinian American</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Saudi_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Saudi Americans">Saudi American</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="History of Native Americans in the United States">Native Americans</a></b>

<ul><li><a href="Cherokee_history" title="Cherokee history">Cherokee</a></li>

<li><a href="Comanche_history" title="Comanche history">Comanche</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="History_of_women_in_the_United_States" title="History of women in the United States">Women</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="LGBTQ_history_in_the_United_States" title="LGBTQ history in the United States">LGBTQ</a></b>

<li><a href="History_of_lesbianism_in_the_United_States" title="History of lesbianism in the United States">Lesbians</a></li>

<li><a href="Transgender_history_in_the_United_States" title="Transgender history in the United States">Transgender people</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Places495" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Places</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States" title="Territorial evolution of the United States">Territorial evolution</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union" title="List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union">Admission to the Union</a></li>

<li><a href="Historical_regions_of_the_United_States" title="Historical regions of the United States">Historical regions</a></li>

<li><a href="American_frontier" title="American frontier">American frontier</a></li>

<li><a href="Manifest_destiny" title="Manifest destiny">Manifest destiny</a></li>

<li><a href="Indian_removal" title="Indian removal">Indian removal</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="History_of_New_England" title="History of New England">New England</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_Southern_United_States" title="History of the Southern United States">The South</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_west_coast_of_North_America" title="History of the west coast of North America">The West Coast</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">States</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">Alabama</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Alaska" title="History of Alaska">Alaska</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Arizona" title="History of Arizona">Arizona</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Arkansas" title="History of Arkansas">Arkansas</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_California" title="History of California">California</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Colorado" title="History of Colorado">Colorado</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Connecticut" title="History of Connecticut">Connecticut</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Delaware" title="History of Delaware">Delaware</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Florida" title="History of Florida">Florida</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="History of Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Hawaii" title="History of Hawaii">Hawaii</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Idaho" title="History of Idaho">Idaho</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Illinois" title="History of Illinois">Illinois</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Indiana" title="History of Indiana">Indiana</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Kansas" title="History of Kansas">Kansas</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Kentucky" title="History of Kentucky">Kentucky</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Louisiana" title="History of Louisiana">Louisiana</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Maine" title="History of Maine">Maine</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Maryland" title="History of Maryland">Maryland</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Massachusetts" title="History of Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Michigan" title="History of Michigan">Michigan</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Minnesota" title="History of Minnesota">Minnesota</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Mississippi" title="History of Mississippi">Mississippi</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Missouri" title="History of Missouri">Missouri</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Montana" title="History of Montana">Montana</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Nebraska" title="History of Nebraska">Nebraska</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Nevada" title="History of Nevada">Nevada</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_New_Hampshire" title="History of New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_New_Jersey" title="History of New Jersey">New Jersey</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_New_Mexico" title="History of New Mexico">New Mexico</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_North_Carolina" title="History of North Carolina">North Carolina</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_North_Dakota" title="History of North Dakota">North Dakota</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Oklahoma" title="History of Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Oregon" title="History of Oregon">Oregon</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Pennsylvania" title="History of Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Rhode_Island" title="History of Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_South_Carolina" title="History of South Carolina">South Carolina</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_South_Dakota" title="History of South Dakota">South Dakota</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Tennessee" title="History of Tennessee">Tennessee</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Texas" title="History of Texas">Texas</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Vermont" title="History of Vermont">Vermont</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Virginia" title="History of Virginia">Virginia</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Washington_(state)" title="History of Washington (state)">Washington</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_West_Virginia" title="History of West Virginia">West Virginia</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Wisconsin" title="History of Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Wyoming" title="History of Wyoming">Wyoming</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Federal District</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="History_of_Washington%2C_D.C." title="History of Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Insular areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="History_of_American_Samoa" title="History of American Samoa">American Samoa</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Puerto_Rico" title="History of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico </a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="History of the United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Outlying islands</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="History_of_Baker_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Baker Island">Baker Island</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Howland_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Howland Island">Howland Island</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Jarvis_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Jarvis Island">Jarvis Island</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Johnston_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Johnston Atoll">Johnston Atoll</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Kingman_Reef" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Kingman Reef">Kingman Reef</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Midway_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Navassa_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Navassa Island">Navassa Island</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Palmyra_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Wake_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Wake Island">Wake Island</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="American_urban_history" title="American urban history">Urban history</a></li>

<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"></span></span> Cities</li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold;"><div>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_years_in_the_United_States" title="List of years in the United States">List of years</a></li>

<li><a href="Historiography_of_the_United_States" title="Historiography of the United States">Historiography</a></li>

<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"></span></span> Category</li>

<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"></span> <a href="Portal%3AUnited_States" title="Portal:United States">Portal</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="American_Revolutionary_War165" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div id="American_Revolutionary_War165" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div id="Origins_of_the_American_Revolution165" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Origins of the <a href="American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Philosophy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="American_Enlightenment" title="American Enlightenment">American Enlightenment</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Locke" title="John Locke">John Locke</a></li>

<li><a href="Colonial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Colonial history of the United States">Colonial history</a></li>

<li><a href="Liberalism_in_the_United_States" title="Liberalism in the United States">Liberalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Republicanism_in_the_United_States" title="Republicanism in the United States">Republicanism</a></li>

<li><a href="Freedom_of_religion_in_the_United_States" title="Freedom of religion in the United States">Freedom of religion</a></li>

<li><a href="Rights_of_Englishmen" title="Rights of Englishmen">Rights of Englishmen</a></li>

<li><a href="No_taxation_without_representation" title="No taxation without representation">No taxation without representation</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Common_Sense" title="Common Sense">Common Sense</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Spirit_of_'76_(sentiment)" title="Spirit of '76 (sentiment)">Spirit of '76</a></li>

<li>"<a href="All_men_are_created_equal" title="All men are created equal">All men are created equal</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Life%2C_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_Happiness" title="Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness">Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Consent_of_the_governed" title="Consent of the governed">Consent of the governed</a>"</li>

<li><a href="Expansionism" title="Expansionism">Expansionism</a></li>

<li><a href="Settler_colonialism" title="Settler colonialism">Settler colonialism</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Royalists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Pitt%E2%80%93Newcastle_ministry" title="Pitt–Newcastle ministry">Pitt–Newcastle ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="Bute_ministry" title="Bute ministry">Bute ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="Grenville_ministry" title="Grenville ministry">Grenville ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="First_Rockingham_ministry" title="First Rockingham ministry">First Rockingham ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="Chatham_ministry" title="Chatham ministry">Chatham ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="Grafton_ministry" title="Grafton ministry">Grafton ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="North_ministry" title="North ministry">North ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="Second_Rockingham_ministry" title="Second Rockingham ministry">Second Rockingham ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="Shelburne_ministry" title="Shelburne ministry">Shelburne ministry</a></li>

<li><a href="Fox%E2%80%93North_coalition" title="Fox–North coalition">Fox–North coalition</a></li>

<li><a href="Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" title="Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalists</a></li>

<li><a href="Black_Loyalist" title="Black Loyalist">Black Loyalist</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Related British<br>acts of Parliament</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Navigation_Acts" title="Navigation Acts">Navigation</a></li>

<li><a href="Molasses_Act" title="Molasses Act">Molasses</a></li>

<li><a href="Royal_Proclamation_of_1763" title="Royal Proclamation of 1763">Royal Proclamation of 1763</a></li>

<li><a href="Sugar_Act" title="Sugar Act">Sugar</a></li>

<li><a href="Currency_Act" title="Currency Act">Currency</a></li>

<li><a href="Quartering_Acts" title="Quartering Acts">Quartering</a></li>

<li><a href="Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp</a> up i.p.o</li>

<li><a href="Declaratory_Act" title="Declaratory Act">Declaratory</a></li>

<li><a href="Townshend_Acts" title="Townshend Acts">Townshend</a></li>

<li><a href="Quebec_Act" title="Quebec Act">Quebec</a></li>

<li><a href="Intolerable_Acts" title="Intolerable Acts">Intolerable</a></li>

<li><a href="Conciliatory_Resolution" title="Conciliatory Resolution">Conciliatory Resolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Restraining_Acts_1775" title="Restraining Acts 1775">Restraining</a></li>

<li><a href="Proclamation_of_Rebellion" title="Proclamation of Rebellion">Proclamation of Rebellion</a></li>

<li><a href="Prohibitory_Act" title="Prohibitory Act">Prohibitory</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Colonials</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Loyal_Nine" title="Loyal Nine">Loyal Nine</a></li>

<li><a href="Stamp_Act_Congress" title="Stamp Act Congress">Stamp Act Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="Declaration_of_Rights_and_Grievances" title="Declaration of Rights and Grievances">Declaration of Rights and Grievances</a></li>

<li><a href="Virginia_Association" title="Virginia Association">Virginia Association</a></li>

<li><a href="Daughters_of_Liberty" title="Daughters of Liberty">Daughters of Liberty</a></li>

<li><a href="Sons_of_Liberty" title="Sons of Liberty">Sons of Liberty</a></li>

<li><a href="Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriots</a></li>

<li><a href="Black_Patriot" title="Black Patriot">Black Patriots</a></li>

<li><a href="Committees_of_correspondence" title="Committees of correspondence">Committees of correspondence</a></li>

<li><a href="Committee_of_safety_(American_Revolution)" title="Committee of safety (American Revolution)">Committees of safety</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Letters_from_a_Farmer_in_Pennsylvania" title="Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania">Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Massachusetts_Circular_Letter" title="Massachusetts Circular Letter">Massachusetts Circular Letter</a></li>

<li><a href="Suffolk_Resolves" title="Suffolk Resolves">Suffolk Resolves</a></li>

<li><a href="Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="First_Continental_Congress" title="First Continental Congress">First Continental Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="Continental_Association" title="Continental Association">Continental Association</a></li>

<li><a href="Minutemen" title="Minutemen">Minutemen</a></li>

<li><a href="Provincial_Congress" title="Provincial Congress">Provincial Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a></li>

<li><a href="Olive_Branch_Petition" title="Olive Branch Petition">Olive Branch Petition</a></li>

<li><a href="Declaration_of_the_Causes_and_Necessity_of_Taking_Up_Arms" title="Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms">Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms</a></li>

<li><a href="Committee_of_Secret_Correspondence" title="Committee of Secret Correspondence">Committee of Secret Correspondence</a></li>

<li><a href="Halifax_Resolves" title="Halifax Resolves">Halifax Resolves</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a></li>

<li><a href="Model_Treaty" title="Model Treaty">Model Treaty</a></li>

<li><a href="Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> and <a href="Perpetual_Union" title="Perpetual Union">Perpetual Union</a></li>

<li><a href="Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Confederation Congress</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="French_and_Indian_War" title="French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a></li>

<li><a href="Treaty_of_Paris_(1763)" title="Treaty of Paris (1763)">Treaty of Paris (1763)</a></li>

<li><a href="Boston_Massacre" title="Boston Massacre">Boston Massacre</a></li>

<li><a href="British_credit_crisis_of_1772%E2%80%931773" title="British credit crisis of 1772–1773">British credit crisis of 1772–1773</a></li>

<li><a href="Gaspee_affair" title="Gaspee affair"><i>Gaspee</i> affair</a></li>

<li><a href="Hutchinson_letters_affair" title="Hutchinson letters affair">Hutchinson letters affair</a></li>

<li><a href="Boston_Tea_Party" title="Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a></li>

<li><a href="Philadelphia_Tea_Party" title="Philadelphia Tea Party">Philadelphia Tea Party</a></li>

<li><a href="Powder_Alarm" title="Powder Alarm">Powder Alarm</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div id="*_Combatants_*_Campaigns_*_Theaters_*_Battles_*_Events_*_Colonies165" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">

<ul><li>Combatants</li>

<li>Campaigns</li>

<li>Theaters</li>

<li>Battles</li>

<li>Events</li>

<li>Colonies</li></ul>

</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Combatants</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a>/<a href="Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a>

<ul><li><a href="Board_of_War" title="Board of War">Board of War</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Continental_Marines" title="Continental Marines">Marines</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Parliament_of_Great_Britain" title="Parliament of Great Britain">Parliament</a></li>

<li><a href="British_Army#Early_British_Empire" title="British Army">British Army</a></li>

<li><a href="Royal_Navy#1707–1815" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a></li>

<li><a href="Germans_in_the_American_Revolution#European_allies_of_Britain" title="Germans in the American Revolution">European allies of King George III</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Colonial allies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="France in the American Revolutionary War">France</a>

<ul><li><a href="Treaty_of_Alliance_(1778)" title="Treaty of Alliance (1778)">Franco-American Treaty</a></li>

<li><a href="Roderigue_Hortalez_and_Company" title="Roderigue Hortalez and Company">Hortalez et Cie</a></li>

<li><a href="Germans_in_the_American_Revolution#American_and_European_supporters_of_Congress" title="Germans in the American Revolution">German supporters of Congress</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Campaigns and<br>theaters</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Boston_campaign" title="Boston campaign">Boston</a></li>

<li><a href="Invasion_of_Quebec_(1775)" title="Invasion of Quebec (1775)">Quebec</a></li>

<li><a href="Nova_Scotia_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Nova Scotia in the American Revolution">Nova Scotia</a></li>

<li><a href="New_York_and_New_Jersey_campaign" title="New York and New Jersey campaign">New York and New Jersey</a></li>

<li><a href="Saratoga_campaign" title="Saratoga campaign">Saratoga</a></li>

<li><a href="Philadelphia_campaign" title="Philadelphia campaign">Philadelphia</a></li>

<li><a href="Northern_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War">Northern</a></li>

<li><a href="Northern_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War_after_Saratoga" title="Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga">Northern after Saratoga</a></li>

<li><a href="Southern_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War">Southern</a></li>

<li><a href="Western_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Western theater of the American Revolutionary War">Western</a></li>

<li><a href="Yorktown_campaign" title="Yorktown campaign">Yorktown</a></li>

<li><a href="Naval_battles_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Naval battles of the American Revolutionary War">Naval battles</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Major <a href="List_of_American_Revolutionary_War_battles" title="List of American Revolutionary War battles">battles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord" title="Battles of Lexington and Concord">Lexington and Concord</a></li>

<li><a href="Siege_of_Boston" title="Siege of Boston">Boston</a></li>

<li><a href="Capture_of_Fort_Ticonderoga" title="Capture of Fort Ticonderoga">Capture of Fort Ticonderoga</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Bunker_Hill" title="Battle of Bunker Hill">Bunker Hill</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Quebec_(1775)" title="Battle of Quebec (1775)">Quebec</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Valcour_Island" title="Battle of Valcour Island">Valcour Island</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Long_Island" title="Battle of Long Island">Long Island</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Harlem_Heights" title="Battle of Harlem Heights">Harlem Heights</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Fort_Washington" title="Battle of Fort Washington">Fort Washington</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Trenton" title="Battle of Trenton">Trenton</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Assunpink_Creek" title="Battle of the Assunpink Creek">Assunpink Creek</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Princeton" title="Battle of Princeton">Princeton</a></li>

<li><a href="Siege_of_Fort_Ticonderoga_(1777)" title="Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)">Siege of Fort Ticonderoga</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Bennington" title="Battle of Bennington">Bennington</a></li>

<li><a href="Battles_of_Saratoga" title="Battles of Saratoga">Saratoga</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Oriskany" title="Battle of Oriskany">Oriskany</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Brandywine" title="Battle of Brandywine">Brandywine</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Germantown" title="Battle of Germantown">Germantown</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Monmouth" title="Battle of Monmouth">Monmouth</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_St._Lucia" title="Battle of St. Lucia">St. Lucia</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Grenada" title="Battle of Grenada">Grenada</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Stony_Point" title="Battle of Stony Point">Stony Point</a></li>

<li><a href="Sullivan_Expedition" title="Sullivan Expedition">Sullivan Expedition</a></li>

<li><a href="Siege_of_Savannah" title="Siege of Savannah">Savannah</a></li>

<li><a href="Great_Siege_of_Gibraltar" title="Great Siege of Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1780)" title="Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)">Cape St. Vincent</a></li>

<li><a href="Siege_of_Charleston" title="Siege of Charleston">Charleston</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Connecticut_Farms" title="Battle of Connecticut Farms">Connecticut Farms</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Springfield" title="Battle of Springfield">Springfield</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Camden" title="Battle of Camden">Camden</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Kings_Mountain" title="Battle of Kings Mountain">Kings Mountain</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Cowpens" title="Battle of Cowpens">Cowpens</a></li>

<li><a href="Siege_of_Pensacola" title="Siege of Pensacola">Pensacola</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Guilford_Court_House" title="Battle of Guilford Court House">Guilford Court House</a></li>

<li><a href="Lochry's_Defeat" title="Lochry's Defeat">Lochry's Defeat</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Chesapeake" title="Battle of the Chesapeake">Chesapeake</a></li>

<li><a href="Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">Yorktown</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Saintes" title="Battle of the Saintes">The Saintes</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Other events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Staten_Island_Peace_Conference" title="Staten Island Peace Conference">Staten Island Peace Conference</a></li>

<li><a href="Sint_Eustatius#"First_Salute"" title="Sint Eustatius">"First Salute"</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Washington's_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River" title="George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River">Washington's crossing of the Delaware River</a></li>

<li><a href="Conway_Cabal" title="Conway Cabal">Conway Cabal</a></li>

<li><a href="Valley_Forge" title="Valley Forge">Valley Forge</a></li>

<li><a href="Franco-American_alliance" title="Franco-American alliance">Entry of France into war</a></li>

<li><a href="Carlisle_Peace_Commission" title="Carlisle Peace Commission">Carlisle Peace Commission</a></li>

<li><a href="Gordon_Riots" title="Gordon Riots">Gordon Riots</a></li>

<li><a href="Pennsylvania_Line_Mutiny" title="Pennsylvania Line Mutiny">Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1781</a></li>

<li><a href="Capture_of_Sint_Eustatius" title="Capture of Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a></li>

<li><a href="Newburgh_Conspiracy" title="Newburgh Conspiracy">Newburgh Conspiracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Pennsylvania_Mutiny_of_1783" title="Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783">Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Related conflicts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Cherokee%E2%80%93American_wars" title="Cherokee–American wars">Cherokee–American wars</a></li>

<li><a href="Fourth_Anglo-Dutch_War" title="Fourth Anglo-Dutch War">Fourth Anglo-Dutch War</a></li>

<li><a href="Second_Anglo-Mysore_War" title="Second Anglo-Mysore War">Second Anglo-Mysore War</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Involvement <span class="nobold">(by <br>colony or location)</span></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Rebel colonies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="History_of_Connecticut#The_American_Revolution_(1775–1789)" title="History of Connecticut">Connecticut</a></li>

<li><a href="Delaware_Line" title="Delaware Line">Delaware</a></li>

<li><a href="Georgia_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Georgia in the American Revolution">Georgia</a></li>

<li><a href="Maryland_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Maryland in the American Revolution">Maryland</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_Massachusetts#Revolutionary_Massachusetts:_1760s–1780s" title="History of Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_New_Hampshire#Revolution:_1775–1815" title="History of New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></li>

<li><a href="New_Jersey_in_the_American_Revolution" title="New Jersey in the American Revolution">New Jersey</a></li>

<li><a href="North_Carolina_in_the_American_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="North Carolina in the American Revolution">North Carolina</a></li>

<li><a href="Pennsylvania_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Pennsylvania in the American Revolution">Pennsylvania</a></li>

<li><a href="Rhode_Island_in_the_American_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhode Island in the American Revolution">Rhode Island</a></li>

<li><a href="South_Carolina_in_the_American_Revolution" title="South Carolina in the American Revolution">South Carolina</a></li>

<li><a href="Virginia_in_the_American_Revolution#American_Revolution" title="Virginia in the American Revolution">Virginia</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Loyal colonies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="East_Florida" title="East Florida">East Florida</a></li>

<li><a href="Nova_Scotia#17th_and_18th_centuries" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a></li>

<li><a href="Province_of_Quebec_(1763%E2%80%931791)" title="Province of Quebec (1763–1791)">Quebec</a></li>

<li><a href="West_Florida" title="West Florida">West Florida</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div id="Leaders165" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Leaders</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">British</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Mariot_Arbuthnot" title="Mariot Arbuthnot">Arbuthnot</a></li>

<li><a href="Joseph_Brant" title="Joseph Brant">Brant</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Burgoyne" title="John Burgoyne">Burgoyne</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Campbell%2C_of_Strachur" title="John Campbell, of Strachur">Campbell</a></li>

<li><a href="Guy_Carleton%2C_1st_Baron_Dorchester" title="Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester">Carleton</a></li>

<li><a href="Henry_Clinton_(British_Army_officer%2C_born_1730)" title="Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730)">Clinton</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Cornwallis%2C_1st_Marquess_Cornwallis" title="Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis">Cornwallis</a></li>

<li><a href="Simon_Fraser_of_Lovat" title="Simon Fraser of Lovat">Fraser</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Graves%2C_1st_Baron_Graves" title="Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves">Graves</a></li>

<li><a href="Richard_Howe%2C_1st_Earl_Howe" title="Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe">Richard Howe</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Howe%2C_5th_Viscount_Howe" title="William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe">William Howe</a></li>

<li><a href="Wilhelm_von_Knyphausen" title="Wilhelm von Knyphausen">Knyphausen</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Rodney%2C_1st_Baron_Rodney" title="George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney">Rodney</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Civilian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="George_III" title="George III">King George III</a></li>

<li><a href="Jeffery_Amherst%2C_1st_Baron_Amherst" title="Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst">Amherst</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Barrington%2C_2nd_Viscount_Barrington" title="William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington">Barrington</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Germain%2C_1st_Viscount_Sackville" title="George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville">Germain</a></li>

<li><a href="Frederick_North%2C_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">North</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Watson-Wentworth%2C_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham" title="Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham">Rockingham</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Montagu%2C_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich" title="John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich">Sandwich</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Petty%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Shelburne" title="William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne">Shelburne</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Colonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="George_Washington" title="George Washington">Washington</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Alexander%2C_Lord_Stirling" title="William Alexander, Lord Stirling">Alexander</a></li>

<li><a href="Ethan_Allen" title="Ethan Allen">Allen</a></li>

<li><a href="Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Arnold</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Barry_(naval_officer)" title="John Barry (naval officer)">Barry</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Claghorn" title="George Claghorn">Claghorn</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Rogers_Clark" title="George Rogers Clark">Clark</a></li>

<li><a href="Louis_Leb%C3%A8gue_Duportail" title="Louis Lebègue Duportail">Duportail</a></li>

<li><a href="Horatio_Gates" title="Horatio Gates">Gates</a></li>

<li><a href="Nathanael_Greene" title="Nathanael Greene">Greene</a></li>

<li><a href="Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Hamilton</a></li>

<li><a href="Esek_Hopkins" title="Esek Hopkins">Hopkins</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Paul_Jones" title="John Paul Jones">Jones</a></li>

<li><a href="Gilbert_du_Motier%2C_Marquis_de_Lafayette" title="Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette">Lafayette</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Lee_(general)" title="Charles Lee (general)">Charles Lee</a></li>

<li><a href="Benjamin_Lincoln" title="Benjamin Lincoln">Lincoln</a></li>

<li><a href="Hugh_Mercer" title="Hugh Mercer">Mercer</a></li>

<li><a href="Richard_Montgomery" title="Richard Montgomery">Montgomery</a></li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Nicholson" title="Samuel Nicholson">Nicholson</a></li>

<li><a href="Israel_Putnam" title="Israel Putnam">Putnam</a></li>

<li><a href="Caesar_Rodney" title="Caesar Rodney">Rodney</a></li>

<li><a href="Arthur_St._Clair" title="Arthur St. Clair">St. Clair</a></li>

<li><a href="Philip_Schuyler" title="Philip Schuyler">Schuyler</a></li>

<li><a href="Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben" title="Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben">von Steuben</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Sullivan_(general)" title="John Sullivan (general)">Sullivan</a></li>

<li><a href="Anthony_Wayne" title="Anthony Wayne">Wayne</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a></li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Adams" title="Samuel Adams">Samuel Adams</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton" title="Charles Carroll of Carrollton">Carroll</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Dickinson" title="John Dickinson">Dickinson</a></li>

<li><a href="Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Franklin</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Hancock" title="John Hancock">Hancock</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Hanson" title="John Hanson">Hanson</a></li>

<li><a href="Patrick_Henry" title="Patrick Henry">Henry</a></li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Huntington_(Connecticut_politician)" title="Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)">Huntington</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Jefferson</a></li>

<li><a href="Henry_Laurens" title="Henry Laurens">Laurens</a></li>

<li><a href="Richard_Henry_Lee" title="Richard Henry Lee">Richard Henry Lee</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_McKean" title="Thomas McKean">McKean</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Morris</a></li>

<li><a href="Paul_Revere" title="Paul Revere">Revere</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Witherspoon" title="John Witherspoon">Witherspoon</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Colonial allies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="French6" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">French</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Louis_XVI" title="Louis XVI">Louis XVI</a></li>

<li><a href="Pierre_Beaumarchais" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Beaumarchais">Beaumarchais</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Henri_Hector%2C_Count_of_Estaing" title="Charles Henri Hector, Count of Estaing">d'Estaing</a></li>

<li><a href="Fran%C3%A7ois_Joseph_Paul_de_Grasse" title="François Joseph Paul de Grasse">de Grasse</a></li>

<li><a href="Luc_Urbain_du_Bou%C3%ABxic%2C_comte_de_Guichen" title="Luc Urbain du Bouëxic, comte de Guichen">de Guichen</a></li>

<li><a href="Anne-C%C3%A9sar_de_La_Luzerne" title="Anne-César de La Luzerne">Luzerne</a></li>

<li><a href="Jean-Baptiste_Donatien_de_Vimeur%2C_comte_de_Rochambeau" title="Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau">de Rochambeau</a></li>

<li><a href="Pierre_Andr%C3%A9_de_Suffren" title="Pierre André de Suffren">Suffren</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Gravier%2C_comte_de_Vergennes" title="Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes">Vergennes</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Society_of_the_Cincinnati" title="Society of the Cincinnati">Society of the Cincinnati</a></li>

<li><a href="Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)" title="Treaty of Paris (1783)">Treaty of Paris (1783)</a></li>

<li><a href="Evacuation_Day_(New_York)" title="Evacuation Day (New York)">Evacuation Day (1783)</a></li>

<li><a href="Ratification_Day_(United_States)" title="Ratification Day (United States)">Ratification Day (1784)</a></li>

<li><a href="Constitutional_Convention_(United_States)" title="Constitutional Convention (United States)">Constitutional Convention</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Federalist_Papers" title="The Federalist Papers">The Federalist Papers</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a></li>

<li><a href="Shays's_Rebellion" title="Shays's Rebellion">Shays's Rebellion</a></li>

<li><a href="Jay_Treaty" title="Jay Treaty">Jay Treaty</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div id="*_Related_topics165" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">

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<li><a href="Turtle_(submersible)" title="Turtle (submersible)">The <i>Turtle</i></a></li>

<li><a href="Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Revolutionary_War_Soldier" title="Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier">Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Political</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Fathers</a></li>

<li><a href="Diplomacy_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Diplomacy in the American Revolutionary War">Diplomacy</a></li>

<li><a href="Liberty_Tree" title="Liberty Tree">Liberty Tree</a></li>

<li><a href="Yankee_Doodle" title="Yankee Doodle">Yankee Doodle</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Timeline of the American Revolution">Timeline of the American Revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="African_Americans_in_the_Revolutionary_War" title="African Americans in the Revolutionary War">African Americans in the Revolutionary War</a></li>

<li><a href="Dogs_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Dogs in the American Revolutionary War">Dogs in the American Revolutionary War</a></li>

<li><a href="Intelligence_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Intelligence in the American Revolutionary War">Intelligence in the American Revolutionary War</a></li>

<li><a href="Women_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Women in the American Revolution">Women in the American Revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Financial_costs_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Financial costs of the American Revolutionary War">Financial costs of the war</a></li>

<li><a href="Continental_currency_banknotes" title="Continental currency banknotes">Continental currency banknotes</a></li>

<li><a href="Continental_Currency_dollar_coin" title="Continental Currency dollar coin">Continental Currency dollar coin</a></li>

<li><a href="Libertas_Americana" title="Libertas Americana">Libertas Americana</a></li>

<li><a href="Commemoration_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Commemoration of the American Revolution">Commemoration</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_films_about_the_American_Revolution" title="List of films about the American Revolution">films</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_television_series_and_miniseries_about_the_American_Revolution" title="List of television series and miniseries about the American Revolution">television</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_plays_and_musicals_about_the_American_Revolution" title="List of plays and musicals about the American Revolution">theater</a></li>

<li><a href="Independence_Day_(United_States)" title="Independence Day (United States)">Independence Day</a></li>

<li><a href="Patriots'_Day" title="Patriots' Day">Patriots' Day</a></li>

<li><a href="General_Pulaski_Memorial_Day" title="General Pulaski Memorial Day">Pulaski Memorial Day</a></li>

<li><a href="Presidents'_Day" title="Presidents' Day">Washington's Birthday</a></li>

<li><a href="Jefferson's_Birthday" title="Jefferson's Birthday">Jefferson's Birthday</a></li>

<li><a href="Von_Steuben_Day" title="Von Steuben Day">Von Steuben Day</a></li>

<li><a href="Minor_American_Revolution_holidays" title="Minor American Revolution holidays">Minor holidays</a></li>

<li><a href="Centennial_Exposition" title="Centennial Exposition">Centennial</a></li>

<li><a href="Sesquicentennial_Exposition" title="Sesquicentennial Exposition">Sesquicentennial</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Bicentennial" title="United States Bicentennial">Bicentennial</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Semiquincentennial" title="United States Semiquincentennial">Semiquincentennial</a></li>

<li><a href="Children_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Children of the American Revolution">Children of the American Revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Sons_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Sons of the American Revolution">Sons of the American Revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Sons_of_the_Revolution" title="Sons of the Revolution">Sons of the Revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="American_Revolution_Statuary" title="American Revolution Statuary">Washington D.C. statuary</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Charters_of_Freedom" title="Charters of Freedom">Charters of Freedom Rotunda</a></li>

<li><a href="Museum_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Museum of the American Revolution">Museum of the American Revolution</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Origins_of_the_American_Revolution:_writings512" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Origins_of_the_American_Revolution:_writings512" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Origins of the <a href="American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>: writings</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>American resolves, declarations, petitions, essays and pamphlets prior to the <a href="United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a> (July 1776)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Following the<br><a href="Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act</a> (1765)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Virginia_Resolves" title="Virginia Resolves">Virginia Resolves</a> (May 1765)</li>

<li><a href="Braintree_Instructions" title="Braintree Instructions">Braintree Instructions</a> (September 1765)</li>

<li><a href="Declaration_of_Rights_and_Grievances" title="Declaration of Rights and Grievances">Declaration of Rights and Grievances</a> (October 1765)</li>

<li><a href="Leedstown_Resolutions" title="Leedstown Resolutions">Leedstown Resolutions</a> (February 1766)</li>

<li><i><a href="Richard_Bland#Colonial_rights_advocate,_An_Inquiry_into_the_Rights_of_the_British_Colonies" title="Richard Bland">An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies</a></i> (1766)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Following the<br><a href="Townshend_Acts" title="Townshend Acts">Townshend Acts</a> (1767)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Letters_from_a_Farmer_in_Pennsylvania" title="Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania">Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania</a></i> (1767, 1768)</li>

<li><a href="Massachusetts_Circular_Letter" title="Massachusetts Circular Letter">Massachusetts Circular Letter</a> (February 1768)</li>

<li><a href="Journal_of_Occurrences" title="Journal of Occurrences">Journal of Occurrences</a> (1768, 1769)</li>

<li><a href="Virginia_Association" title="Virginia Association">Virginia Association</a> (May 1769)</li>

<li><i><a href="Boston_Pamphlet" title="Boston Pamphlet">Boston Pamphlet</a></i> (1772)</li>

<li><a href="Sheffield_Declaration" title="Sheffield Declaration">Sheffield Declaration</a> (January 1773)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Following the<br><a href="Intolerable_Acts" title="Intolerable Acts">Coercive Acts</a> (1774)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Province_of_Maryland" title="Province of Maryland">Maryland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Chestertown_Tea_Party" title="Chestertown Tea Party">Chestertown Resolves</a> (May 1774)</li>

<li><a href="Talbot_Resolves" title="Talbot Resolves">Talbot Resolves</a> (May 1774)</li>

<li><a href="Bush_Declaration" title="Bush Declaration">Bush River Resolution</a> (March 1775)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay" title="Province of Massachusetts Bay">Massachusetts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Suffolk_Resolves" title="Suffolk Resolves">Suffolk Resolves</a> (September 1774)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Province_of_New_York" title="Province of New York">New York</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Orangetown_Resolutions" title="Orangetown Resolutions">Orangetown Resolutions</a> (July 1774)</li>

<li><i><a href="A_Full_Vindication_of_the_Measures_of_Congress" title="A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress">A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress</a></i> (December 1774)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Farmer_Refuted" title="The Farmer Refuted">The Farmer Refuted</a></i> (February 1775)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Province_of_North_Carolina" title="Province of North Carolina">North Carolina</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Rowan_Resolves" title="Rowan Resolves">Rowan Resolves</a> (August 1774)</li>

<li><a href="Edenton_Tea_Party" title="Edenton Tea Party">Edenton Tea Party</a> (October 1774)</li>

<li><a href="Mecklenburg_Resolves" title="Mecklenburg Resolves">Mecklenburg Resolves</a> or <a href="Mecklenburg_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence">Declaration</a> (May 1775)</li>

<li><a href="Liberty_Point_Resolves" title="Liberty Point Resolves">Liberty Point Resolves</a> (June 1775)</li>

<li><a href="Tryon_Resolves" title="Tryon Resolves">Tryon Resolves</a> (August 1775)</li>

<li><a href="Halifax_Resolves" title="Halifax Resolves">Halifax Resolves</a> (April 1776)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Virginia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Loudoun_Resolves" title="Loudoun Resolves">Loudoun Resolves</a> (June 1774)</li>

<li><a href="Fairfax_Resolves" title="Fairfax Resolves">Fairfax Resolves</a> (July 1774)</li>

<li><a href="Fincastle_Resolutions" title="Fincastle Resolutions">Fincastle Resolutions</a> (January 1775)</li>

<li><a href="Augusta_Resolves" title="Augusta Resolves">Augusta Resolves</a> (February 1775)</li>

<li><a href="Augusta_Declaration" title="Augusta Declaration">Augusta Declaration</a> (May 1776)</li>

<li><a href="Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights" title="Virginia Declaration of Rights">Virginia Declaration of Rights</a> (June 1776)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="First_Continental_Congress" title="First Continental Congress">First Continental<br>Congress</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Declaration_and_Resolves_of_the_First_Continental_Congress" title="Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress">Declaration and Resolves</a> (October 1774)</li>

<li><a href="Continental_Association" title="Continental Association">Continental Association</a> (October 1774)</li>

<li><a href="Petition_to_the_King" title="Petition to the King">Petition to the King</a> (October 1774)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental<br>Congress</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Olive_Branch_Petition" title="Olive Branch Petition">Olive Branch Petition</a> (July 1775)</li>

<li><a href="United_States_Declaration_of_Independence#May_15_preamble" title="United States Declaration of Independence">May 15 preamble</a> (May 1776)</li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Essays and pamphlets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="The_Rights_of_Colonies_Examined" title="The Rights of Colonies Examined">The Rights of Colonies Examined</a></i> (1764)</li>

<li>"<a href="Letters_to_the_Inhabitants_of_Canada" title="Letters to the Inhabitants of Canada">Letters to the Inhabitants of Canada</a>" (1774, 1775, 1776)</li>

<li><i><a href="A_Summary_View_of_the_Rights_of_British_America" title="A Summary View of the Rights of British America">A Summary View of the Rights of British America</a></i> (1774)</li>

<li><i><a href="Novanglus" class="mw-redirect" title="Novanglus">Novanglus</a></i> (1775)</li>

<li><i><a href="Common_Sense" title="Common Sense">Common Sense</a></i> (January 1776)</li>

<li><i><a href="Thoughts_on_Government" title="Thoughts on Government">Thoughts on Government</a></i> (Spring, 1776)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Journals_of_the_Continental_Congress" title="Journals of the Continental Congress">Journals of the Continental Congress</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Carpenters'_Hall" title="Carpenters' Hall">Carpenters' Hall</a></li>

<li><a href="First_Continental_Congress" title="First Continental Congress">First Continental Congress</a></li>

<li><a href="Continental_Association" title="Continental Association">Articles of Association</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Independence_Hall" title="Independence Hall">Independence Hall</a></li>

<li><a href="Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Pennsylvania_Provincial_Conference" title="Pennsylvania Provincial Conference">Pennsylvania Provincial Conference</a></li>

<li><a href="United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a></li>

<li><a href="Pennsylvania_Constitution_of_1776" title="Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776">Pennsylvania Constitution</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Washington's_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River" title="George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River">Washington Crosses the Delaware</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a></li>

<li><a href="Philadelphia_campaign" title="Philadelphia campaign">Philadelphia campaign</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Brandywine" title="Battle of Brandywine">Battle of Brandywine</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Clouds" title="Battle of the Clouds">Battle of the Clouds</a></li>

<li><a href="Liberty_Bell#Early_days_(1754–1846)" title="Liberty Bell">Liberty Bell moved to Allentown</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Paoli" title="Battle of Paoli">Battle of Paoli</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Germantown" title="Battle of Germantown">Battle of Germantown</a></li>

<li><a href="Fort_Mifflin" title="Fort Mifflin">Siege of Fort Mifflin</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_White_Marsh" title="Battle of White Marsh">Battle of White Marsh</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Matson's_Ford" title="Battle of Matson's Ford">Battle of Matson's Ford</a></li>

<li><a href="Valley_Forge" title="Valley Forge">Valley Forge</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Battle_of_Crooked_Billet" title="Battle of Crooked Billet">Battle of Crooked Billet</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Barren_Hill" title="Battle of Barren Hill">Battle of Barren Hill</a></li>

<li><a href="Philadelphia_campaign" title="Philadelphia campaign">British occupation of Philadelphia ends</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Wyoming" title="Battle of Wyoming">Wyoming Valley battle and massacre</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Congress of the Confederation</a></li>

<li><a href="Pennsylvania_Line_Mutiny" title="Pennsylvania Line Mutiny">Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Pennsylvania_Mutiny_of_1783" title="Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783">1783 Mutiny</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Parson's_Cause" title="Parson's Cause">Parson's Cause</a> (1763)</li>

<li><a href="Virginia_Resolves" title="Virginia Resolves">Virginia Resolves</a> (1765)</li>

<li><a href="Virginia_Association" title="Virginia Association">Virginia Association</a> (1769)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Loudoun_Resolves" title="Loudoun Resolves">Loudoun Resolves</a></li>

<li><a href="Fairfax_Resolves" title="Fairfax Resolves">Fairfax Resolves</a></li>

<li><a href="First_Virginia_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="First Virginia Convention">First Virginia Convention</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Fincastle_Resolutions" title="Fincastle Resolutions">Fincastle Resolutions</a></li>

<li><a href="Augusta_Resolves" title="Augusta Resolves">Augusta Resolves</a></li>

<li>"<a href="Give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death!" title="Give me liberty or give me death!">Give me liberty or give me death!</a>"</li>

<li><a href="Gunpowder_Incident" title="Gunpowder Incident">Gunpowder Incident</a></li>

<li><a href="Culpeper_Minutemen" title="Culpeper Minutemen">Formation of Culpeper Minutemen</a></li>

<li><a href="Dunmore's_Proclamation" title="Dunmore's Proclamation">Dunmore's Proclamation</a></li>

<li><a href="Ethiopian_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethiopian Regiment">Formation of Ethiopian Regiment</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Kemp's_Landing" title="Battle of Kemp's Landing">Battle of Kemp's Landing</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Great_Bridge" title="Battle of Great Bridge">Battle of Great Bridge</a></li>

<li><a href="Second_Virginia_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Virginia Convention">Second Virginia Convention</a></li>

<li><a href="Third_Virginia_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Virginia Convention">Third Virginia Convention</a></li>

<li><a href="Fourth_Virginia_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourth Virginia Convention">Fourth Virginia Convention</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Burning_of_Norfolk" title="Burning of Norfolk">Burning of Norfolk</a></li>

<li><a href="Lee's_Legion" title="Lee's Legion">Formation of Lee's Legion</a></li>

<li><a href="Fifth_Virginia_Convention" title="Fifth Virginia Convention">Fifth Virginia Convention</a>

<ul><li><a href="Augusta_Declaration" title="Augusta Declaration">Augusta Declaration</a></li>

<li><a href="Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights" title="Virginia Declaration of Rights">Virginia Declaration of Rights</a></li></ul></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Chesapeake_raid" title="Chesapeake raid">Chesapeake raid</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Raid_on_Richmond" title="Raid on Richmond">Raid on Richmond</a></li>

<li><a href="Skirmish_at_Waters_Creek" title="Skirmish at Waters Creek">Skirmish at Waters Creek</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Cape_Henry" title="Battle of Cape Henry">Battle of Cape Henry</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Blandford" title="Battle of Blandford">Battle of Blandford</a></li>

<li><a href="Action_at_Osborne's" title="Action at Osborne's">Action at Osborne's</a></li>

<li><a href="Point_of_Fork_Arsenal" title="Point of Fork Arsenal">Raid on Point of Fork</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Spencer's_Ordinary" title="Battle of Spencer's Ordinary">Battle of Spencer's Ordinary</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Green_Spring" title="Battle of Green Spring">Battle of Green Spring</a></li>

<li><a href="Francisco's_Fight" title="Francisco's Fight">Francisco's Fight</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Chesapeake" title="Battle of the Chesapeake">Battle of the Chesapeake</a></li>

<li><a href="Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">Siege of Yorktown</a></li></ul>

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