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After the French and Indian War in which Britain was victorious a lot of problems emerged. Public debt increased and economical situation was really bad and government believed that the only way to improve situation was to introduced new taxes. Most of those taxes were introduced in colonies, which enraged the people who lived there as they already believed that they were deprived of their rights. Colonies started opposing this new levies, which eventually led to the war.
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British government started imposing many new acts, among which the hardest ones were the Townshend's acts and Intolerable Acts. The taxation system was unacceptable for the colonies, which eventually led to war between Britain and colonies.
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The Battle of Fort Donelson was the first major Union victory in the Civil War and a major victory for Ulysses S. Grant. The losses of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson were disasters for the Confederates. Kentucky was lost and Tennessee lay wide open to the Yankees.
It occurred in I Hardin County in southwestern Tennessee. The Union won the battle. The Union had about 13,000 casualties and the Confederates had about 11,000. The Armies of Tennessee and Ohio outnumber the Army of Mississippi by about 20,000 men.
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Democratic-Republican Societies were locally-organized political agrupations that arose in the US territory during 1793-94 aiming to promote and work towards democracy and republicanism and to extinguish aristocratic ideas.
The first society was established in 1793: the Germans of Philadelpia. More than 35 new ones flourished until 1975. Many of their leaders ended up becoming part of Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party, that he founded at a national level.
The societies claimed for equal justice and knowledge diffusion. But the main and ultimate goal was to "<em>support and perpetuate the EQUAL RIGHTS OF MAN</em>" as, for instance, the society in NY explicitly stated. These rights included freedom of speech, opinion, press, assembly which in turn granted the right to express opinions regarding the job done by government representatives, to demand explanations about public policies and acts, the right to translate those opinion into written format and to spread them by using the press.
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In 1773, when he was around 16 years old, Hamilton arrived in New York, where he enrolled in King's College (later renamed Columbia University
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