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. . Burning of the Gaspee, 11.3 Inspiring all colonies Historians such as Bernard Bailyn Gordon Wood and Edmund Morgan view the American Revolution as a unique and radical event that produced deep changes and had a profound effect on world affairs such as an increasing belief in the principles of the Enlightenment These were demonstrated by a leadership and government that espoused protection of natural rights and a system of laws chosen by the people. John Murrin by contrast argues that the definition of "the people" at that time was mostly restricted to free men who were able to pass a property-qualification. This view argues that any significant gain of the revolution was irrelevant in the short term to women black Americans and slaves poor white men youth and American Indians, Main article: Library of Congress. .

. On January 5 1776 New Hampshire ratified the first state constitution in May 1776 Congress voted to suppress all forms of crown authority to be replaced by locally created authority Virginia South Carolina and New Jersey created their constitutions before July 4 Rhode Island and Connecticut simply took their existing royal charters and deleted all references to the crown the new states were all committed to republicanism with no inherited offices They decided what form of government to create and also how to select those who would craft the constitutions and how the resulting document would be ratified On 26 May 1776 John Adams wrote James Sullivan from Philadelphia:. The Act specified that the laws of the state from which the area was ceded would apply in the federal district meaning that Maryland laws applied on the eastern side of the Potomac while Virginia laws applied on the western side in the District of Columbia until the government officially took residence Upon assuming control of the federal district in 1800 Congress would have full authority over local matters within the District of Columbia. . On the Mexican side only 7 of the 19 states that formed the Mexican federation sent soldiers armament and money for the war effort as the young Republic had not yet developed a sense of a unifying national identity, Further information: United States public debt and Alexander Hamilton. Justice Nominated Appointed Historians typically begin their histories of the American Revolution with the British coalition victory in the Seven Years' War in 1763 the North American theater of the Seven Years' War is commonly known as the French and Indian War in the United States; it removed France as a major player in North American affairs and led to the territory of New France being ceded to Great Britain Lawrence Henry Gipson writes:, Many of the Founding Fathers were under 40 years old at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776: Alexander Hamilton was 19 Aaron Burr was 20 Gouverneur Morris was 24 the oldest were Benjamin Franklin 70 and Samuel Whittemore 81, 2.1 French and Indian War Pew Research Center 2014 Religious Landscape Study on religion in the Washington D.C. A dusk picture of the Washington Monument obelisk with flags around the base in Washington D.C!