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continental congress meets
It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans by the British Parliament. -
declaration of independence
Independence Day is the national day of the United States. -
National assembly estblished
national assembly was a transitiona; body between the Estates-General and the Constituent assembly -
storming of the bastille
The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris -
bill of rights
The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution -
King Louis XIV
Louis XVI is the only King of France ever to be executed -
Haiti independence
it became the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere and the first free black republic in the world. -
Yorktown battle
a battle during the Peninsula campaign of the American Civil War