American Revolution
Today in History: Stamp Act Repealed and Declaratory Act Passed
Today in history, on Mar 18, 1766, British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, after months of protest from the colonies and British merchants. On the same day, Royal Assent was given to the Declaratory Act, a pronouncement that Parliament’s authority in North America...
Today in History: Treaty of Paris Ratified, Formally Ending War for Independence
Today in history, on January 14, 1784, the United States ratified the Treaty of Paris with Britain, bringing a formal end to the American War of Independence. Although few actual scuffles with the British had occurred since the 1781 Battle of Yorktown, the war...
America’s Revolutionary Founders Would Be Anti-Government Extremists Today
Had the Declaration of Independence been written today, it would have rendered its signers extremists or terrorists, resulting in them being placed on a government watch list, targeted for surveillance of their activities and correspondence, and potentially arrested,...
The American Revolution Was a Constitutional Crisis
At its core, the American Revolution was a constitutional crisis. The British system of government during the colonial era was a constitutional system, but not in the same sense Americans think of it today. The constitution was not written, and in the British system,...