I'm assuming you mean the French alliance with the American colonists during the American War for Independence against the British.
The French alliance was hugely important for two reasons:
- France provided significant military support, especially in leadership roles like that of General Lafayette, and in support provided by the French navy in battling British ships and transporting reinforcements for the American patriots.
- France devoted enormous financial aid to the Americans. The cost to France for supporting America’s revolution added up to 1 billion livres (about 4 billion in today’s dollars). That financial boost was much needed by the revolutionaries in America. [It did also have the side effect of putting the French government deeper in debt, which led to the French Revolution.]
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The Brandenburg Gate Speech, delivered on June 12, 1987 by President Reagan, was the most significant speech at the end of the Cold War. There, President Reagan addressed Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union, directly, asking him directly to tear down the wall that separated East Germany from West Germany, thus ending the separation of both parts of the city of Berlin. But this speech had behind it a much deeper ideological baggage, in which President Reagan urged the Soviet Union to cease its actions and surrender, given the demonstrated inability to maintain communism on a global scale that the Soviets had demonstrated.
Thus, 2 years later, the wall was demolished and the German reunification took place, being one of the final episodes of the Soviet defeat in the Cold War.
The correct answer is: Colonists could be taxed only by colonial assemblies.
The Virginia Resolves were a response by the House of Burgesses to the proclamation of the Stamp Act of 1765 by the Parliament of Great Britain, which imposed direct taxes on the American Colonies. They were a series of resolutions claiming that since in the Parliament of Great Britain there were no colonial representatives, therefore they have no right of taxation, because it was stipulated by law that only the persons chosen by the colonists could represent them and know what taxes people were able to bear.
