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War for Independence
Drift toward Independence

A majority of American colonists were slow to accept the notion of independence from Britain. The drift toward a full break with the mother country was accelerated by the following:

  • Early military successes (Lexington, Concord, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, etc.) caused many Americans to believe that they could win
  • The British decision to shut down American trade angered colonial business interests and consumers
  • The decision to employ mercenary soldiers, the Hessians, led many Americans to question their long-held loyalty to the king
  • The efforts of American propagandists, particularly Tom Paine's Common Sense, brought the question of independence into the public arena.

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American Archives: Toward independence
... independence Subthemes Toward independence: the processes and events that led to independence, including acts of the Continental Congress, elite opinion, early Declarations of Independence, and the impact of the Declaration are all included here.
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/amarch/independence.html

The 1850s: Coin Availability Improves as Nation Drifts Toward Civil War.
... for the first time ever in the 1850s, the United States continued its drift toward civil war.  The Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, and the Election of 1860 dominated news during this time. The Compromise of 1850 ...
http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/the-nation-drifts-toward-war.htm ...

Lift and Drift
... Wilbur defines as the pressure or force directly opposed to gravity and true drift is a force perpendicular to it -- what we now call drag. Lilienthal's tables, he notes, do not contain numbers that are immediately useful. Lilienthal based ...
http://www.first-to-fly.com/Adventure/Workshop/lift_and_drift.htm

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