Topic: International Relations
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North America
This map shows North America after the Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years’ War on February 10, 1763. France gives up its Canadian provinces to Britain. Britain also gains...
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NY Merchants Non-Importation Agreement
This document records the response of New York City merchants to the Stamp Act. In order to express their opposition to the measure, merchants agreed among themselves not to import...
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Objections to Taxation
Soame Jenyns, a member of Parliament, wrote this pamphlet, The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain, in 1765. Jenyns defended Parliament’s right...
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Peace Treaty Commissioners
This is an unfinished painting by Benjamin West depicting the signing of the peace treaty that ended the American Revolution. It shows the American commissioners, John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin...
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Present State of the British Empire
In 1772, the Englishman Arthur Young argued that Great Britain, its American colonies, and Ireland together made up one powerful and prosperous nation. In his essay, Young wrote of the...
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Quebec Act
The Quebec Act of 1774 was a law passed by Parliament that established the structure of government for Canadian territory acquired by Britain as a result of the French and...
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Rebellion of the Slaves in Santo Domingo
This print shows the 1791 slave insurrection in the French colony of Saint-Domingue which sparked the Haitian Revolution. By 1804, Haiti was an independent republic–a black republic–in which slavery was...
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Richard Henry Lee to Landon Carter
In this document, Thomas Jefferson recalls the life and political career of his fellow Virginian, Patrick Henry. Although he acknowledges Henry’s eloquence and commitment to the revolutionary cause, he is...
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Sixth Essay on Field-Husbandry
In 1759, Connecticut minister Jared Eliot published a series of essays encouraging American farmers to adopt more highly scientific farming practices. In this essay, he proposed that farmers produce a...
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