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It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans by the British Parliament.
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Independence Day is the national day of the United States.
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national assembly was a transitiona; body between the Estates-General and the Constituent assembly
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The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris
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The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
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Louis XVI is the only King of France ever to be executed
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it became the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere and the first free black republic in the world.
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a battle during the Peninsula campaign of the American Civil War