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... His mission was to get financial aid, commercial treaties and recognition of American independence ... receive Jay as the Minister of the United States, as it refused to recognize American Independence until 1783, fearing that such recognition could spark revolution in their own ... On June 23, 1782, Jay reached Paris, where negotiations to end the American Revolutionary War would take place ...
... Most papers at the time of the American Revolution were anti-royalist, chiefly because of opposition to the Stamp Act taxing newsprint ...
... He lived in the Ladd-Gilman house, now a part of the American Independence Museum ... The American Independence Museum commemorates his brave act every year at their American Independence Festival, where a role-player reads the Declaration in its entirety to festival-goers ...
... war" policy and begin peace talks with the Americans. 1778 Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France was specifically to maintain the independence of the United States ... had been held with Henry Laurens, an American envoy captured on his way to Amsterdam ...
Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or american:
“Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
And when the storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peace your valor won.
Let independence be our boast,
Ever mindful what it cost;”
—Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842)
“I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts by black women. A working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn could become an expert on Shakespeare or Baudelaire, my students seemed to believe, if she mastered the language, the texts, and the critical literature. But they would not grant that a middle-class white man could ever be a trusted authority on Toni Morrison.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American scholar and educator. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B2 (July 27, 1994)