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

• Francisco de MirandaRelated: Miranda encountered its leaders and treated its independence as a model for Spanish America.

• Methodist Episcopal ChurchRelated: Independence made a separate American Methodist church and locally ordained clergy necessary.

• National liberationRelated: It made independence from an imperial power a durable model of political legitimacy.

• Pasquale PaoliRelated: Paoli’s republic was discussed in Britain and America as a contemporary experiment in self-government.

• VirginiaRelated: Virginia was a major center of revolutionary leadership and fighting.

• William ThorntonRelated: Thornton immigrated to the United States during the period of independence and nation-building.

• First Great AwakeningRelated: Claims about shared experience and resistance to authority later shaped interpretations linking revival to revolution.

• James Fenimore CooperRelated: Cooper’s early novels repeatedly use the Revolution as a setting for divided loyalties.

• Two Treatises of GovernmentRelated: Lockean principles informed arguments used to justify resistance to British rule.

• Barbary WarsRelated: Independence ended the protection American ships had received under British power, exposing them to new negotiations and risks.

• John Singleton CopleyRelated: Political instability contributed to Copley’s decision to leave Boston for Europe.

• TavernRelated: Colonial taverns hosted meetings and exchanges that connected revolutionary-era communities.

• 18th centuryRelated: It established an independent republic during the century’s age of revolution.

• Francis AsburyRelated: The war disrupted Methodist networks and made an independent American church increasingly necessary.

• History of CanadaRelated: Its outcome brought Loyalist migration and helped shape British North America.

• Republican factionRelated: Its independence movement created a durable setting for competing visions of republican government.

• American political historyRelated: The independence movement created the new republic whose political institutions this history traces.

• History of the BahamasRelated: The revolution prompted Loyalist migration that transformed Bahamian landholding and population.

• The MaritimesRelated: Loyalist migration after the revolution transformed settlement in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

• Wolfe ToneRelated: Its successful break with Britain offered a precedent for Irish independence.

• Classical radicalismRelated: The revolution sharpened British debates about representation and the legitimacy of resistance.

• Elizabeth F. ElletRelated: It is the central setting of Ellet’s best-known historical work.

• Government (form of rule)Related: It produced a durable experiment in republican government and written constitutional design.

• History of liberalismRelated: Its declarations and constitution turned natural-rights arguments into a durable political experiment.

• Lewis NamierRelated: Namier’s interpretation of British politics during the crisis became a major point of historical debate.

• Michael Kovats de FabriczyRelated: Kovats's service took place within the colonies' struggle for independence.

• Mid-AtlanticRelated: Several Mid-Atlantic colonies became central settings for the Revolution and its founding politics.

• Pierre-Augustin de BeaumarchaisRelated: Beaumarchais helped supply American forces with arms and provisions during the conflict.

• Samuel Flagg BemisRelated: Bemis examined how the new nation’s diplomacy secured independence.

• United States of AmericaRelated: The revolution transformed colonial resistance into an independent republic.