This not only caused unrest for Washington, but for all colonists, who were now thinking of breaking away from King George III and England. ... A lesser person might have used this power to establish a military dictatorship or to become king. ... Washington lived only two years after turning over the presidency to his successor, John Adams. ... After the war John Adams became vice-president under George Washington for two terms. ... After John Adams Jefferson became the United States third president. ...

• Word Count: 1399
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

During the American Revolution John Adams deliberated the reasons and worth of the fight. ... Jonathan Mayhew justified overthrowing the King by proving that intentional unjust laws are considered abuse. ... One would see petitions overlooked and the foolish and harshness of the crown (a.k.a. the King). ... John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, he calls for the people to stand up and fight with their fellow brothers. ... The law set against the colonists were unjust, and the King did not change them regardless of how many petitions the...

• Word Count: 1713
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The British now targeted the two people that had begun the revolution, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. ... While John Hancock, who was a smuggler in Boston represented the rich, who opposed the British because of the annoying taxation. ... It followed the natural rights tenets of the British philosopher John Locke, whose writings had justified independence as the will of the people and revolution as a device for bringing happiness. ...

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The story opens in England, October 26, 1775, with King George III of England addressing the British Parliament on the war in the North American colonies. ... McCullough offers the British perspective on the events in faraway North America first, re-creating the debate in Parliament over the king's decision to quash the rebellion. ... He writes evenhandedly about the British generals Howe, Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne, and Charles Cornwallis. Howe had served under General James Wolfe, who called him "the best officer in the King's service.... Readers interested in a wider view...

• Word Count: 1576
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" is there any inhabitant in America so ignorant, as not to know, that according to what is called the PRESENT CONSTITUTION, that this continent can make no laws but what the king gives it leave to; and is there any man so unwise, as not to see, that (considering what has happened) he will suffer no law to be made here, but such as suit HIS purpose." ... After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of King Charles II, England closed its grip on the colonies. ... Faced with the discontent of the colonists, ranging from insubstantial talk right up to the open rebellions ...

• Word Count: 1820
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Henceforth the king was the sole repository of sovereign power. In a very real sense the king was the state. ... Philosophers as the father of liberal theory John Locke spread a body of ideas of reform to lead French people through the liberty path and make them believe there was a chance for a better life. ... Again the picture is the same as in the French Revolution: the appearance of a tyrannical government "The King George who felt that it would maintain the general principle that this government had the right to impose citizen's duties" and people fighting for their rights "The...

• Word Count: 1603
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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he c...

• Word Count: 1791
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he c...

• Word Count: 1702
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate