Thomas Jefferson

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   1776US Declaration of Independence저자

   Delegates of the thirteen colonies, meeting in Philadelphia, declared independence from Great Britain.

People who appear alongside

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  George Washington1732 – 1799

  Commander of the Continental Army and first US president

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  John Adams1735 – 1826

  Massachusetts lawyer and statesman who championed independence in Congress, negotiated the Treaty of Paris and became the second US president (1797–1801)

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  Benjamin Franklin1706 – 1790

  Philadelphia printer, scientist and diplomat who signed the Declaration and the Constitution and won the French alliance in Paris

Themes this person appears in

• Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800

  Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence

• Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796

  The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution

• Revolutions and Nation-States1776 – 1871

  From the Declaration of Independence to the German Empire — a century in which liberalism and nationalism toppled the old order in Europe and the Americas and built nation-states

• The American Revolution1765 – 1789

  From the Stamp Act to Washington’s inauguration — thirteen colonies that cried “No taxation without representation” fought Britain for eight years, won their independence and framed a new republic under the Constitution