The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

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  • John Adams

    John Adams

    John Adams (1735 - 1826) was an American politician and political philosopher and the second President of the United States (1797–1801), after being the first Vice President of the United States (1789–1797) for two terms. He was one of the most influentia...

  • John Dickinson
  • Thomas Hutchinson

    Thomas Hutchinson

    Thomas Hutchinson (9 September 1711 – 3 June 1780) was a businessman, historian, and a prominent Loyalist politician of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years before the American Revolution. He was a successful merchant and politician, and was act...

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801 - 1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Contin...

  • John Trenchard

    John Trenchard

    The narrator and main protagonist in Moonfleet.At the beginning of the novel, John is a 15-year-old orphan living with his aunt in the Dorset village of Moonfleet....

  • Jonathan Mayhew