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The 142 pages that link to American Revolution, each with the reason it gives.

• NationalismRelated: It connected resistance to imperial rule with claims of self-government.

• LiberalismRelated: Its declarations and constitution translated liberal claims into founding political documents.

• NeoclassicismRelated: Classical republican ideals helped shape the new nation’s public architecture and civic imagery.

• John LockeRelated: Lockean language about rights and resistance informed arguments used by some revolutionaries.

• Self-determinationRelated: Its claim to independence made popular consent a model for later national movements.

• Seven Years' WarRelated: Postwar taxation and imperial policy helped intensify colonial resistance.

• DemocracyRelated: Its constitutional experiment joined elected government to arguments about popular consent.

• Slavery in the United StatesRelated: Revolutionary claims of liberty coexisted with slavery and sharpened disputes over its future.

• United StatesRelated: The revolution created the independent country and its founding political claims.

• Princeton UniversityRelated: The Battle of Princeton brought fighting to the college grounds in 1777.

• DeismRelated: Deist ideas circulated among some figures in the era’s debates about authority and liberty.

• Popular sovereigntyRelated: Revolutionary declarations and constitutions presented political authority as resting on the people.

• TaxationRelated: Resistance to taxation without colonial representation became a central grievance.

• American exceptionalismRelated: Revolutionary claims about liberty and popular sovereignty supplied a founding account of national distinctiveness.

• MercantilismRelated: Colonial resistance targeted imperial trade controls and taxation associated with mercantilist rule.

• Representative democracyRelated: Revolutionary demands for consent helped turn elected government into a constitutional project.

• George IIIRelated: The rebellion and its defeat of British policy became the defining crisis of his early reign.

• Scottish EnlightenmentRelated: Scottish theories of rights, commerce, and government circulated among writers in the revolutionary Atlantic world.

• New EnglandRelated: New England protests and battles helped turn imperial disputes into armed rebellion.

• RepublicRelated: Its leaders established a republic and argued that legitimate government required consent.

• African-American historyRelated: Revolutionary claims of liberty coexisted with slavery and debates over Black freedom.

• English colonization of the AmericasRelated: The mainland colonies’ break from Britain ended English and later British rule there.

• British colonization of the AmericasRelated: Imperial disputes over taxation, representation, and sovereignty ended British rule over much of mainland North America.

• Political equalityRelated: Its language of popular sovereignty coexisted with severe exclusions from political membership.

• American poetryRelated: Revolutionary ideals gave early national poets subjects, audiences, and arguments about citizenship.

• Noah WebsterRelated: Webster connected a distinct national language with the republic created by the Revolution.

• Fifth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionRelated: Colonial resistance to arbitrary searches, prosecutions, and property seizures shaped later constitutional safeguards.

• Kingdom of Great BritainRelated: The loss of the colonies weakened Britain's first empire during the kingdom's final decades.

• Progressive historiographyRelated: Progressive accounts recast the Revolution as a conflict shaped partly by class and property interests.

• British North AmericaRelated: Its outcome brought Loyalist migrants north and separated British colonies from the new United States.

• Irish Rebellion of 1798Related: Its example of independence from British rule informed Irish reformers and revolutionaries.

• Civic RepublicanismRelated: Classical republican language shaped revolutionary arguments about virtue, independence, and self-government.

• DelawareRelated: Delaware joined the revolutionary cause and became an independent state.

• Jacques Pierre BrissotRelated: Brissot admired the American republican experiment and drew on its example.

• Quebec ActRelated: Opposition to the act helped widen colonial distrust of British imperial policy.

• Transportation (penal)Related: Independence ended Britain's ability to send convicts to its former mainland colonies.

• Anti-AmericanismRelated: The new republic's ideals and expansion produced competing admiration and suspicion abroad.

• Battle of the Plains of AbrahamRelated: Britain’s costly victory in the Seven Years’ War contributed to postwar tensions with its American colonies.

• Iroquois ConfederacyRelated: The Confederacy's nations divided over which side to support, with lasting consequences.

• Atlantic revolutionsRelated: Its independence helped establish a republican model that circulated across the Atlantic.

• Eastern United StatesRelated: Its central campaigns and institutions arose largely in the eastern colonies.

• Madeira wineRelated: Madeira was a prominent imported wine in colonial America and appears in accounts of the era.

• Parliament of Great BritainRelated: The parliament’s taxation and imperial policies became central causes of the colonial revolt.

• Proprietary colonyRelated: Independence ended the Crown’s grants of proprietary authority in the former British colonies.

• American RomanticismRelated: Its aftermath intensified questions about national character that Romantic writers addressed through history and myth.

• Great AwakeningRelated: Claims about the Awakening's influence on revolutionary politics remain debated, but both reshaped colonial public life.

• New York StateRelated: New York was a major military theater and emerged from the war as a state.

• Political pamphletRelated: Pamphlets helped explain resistance to British rule and persuade colonists to support independence.

• Rhode IslandRelated: Rhode Island declared independence from Britain on May 4, 1776, before the other colonies.

• Royal colonyRelated: Disputes with royal officials and Parliament formed part of the conflict's background.