When enumerating the inalienable rights of "all men," including "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson drew on a phrase from John Locke:...
Number of pamphlets published between 1750 and 1776 addressing the Anglo-American controversy: over 400 …number published between 1776 and 1783: 1,100 Population of the colony of New York in...
African colonization A movement of blacks and whites (but mostly whites during its eighteenth and nineteenth century phases) that promoted the movement of free blacks back to Africa, usually to spr...
