On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation ...

With the world in kind of the state it’s in, the time for learning about civil debate has never been more important, so the ...

The common narrative of American independence describes a swift separation of the colonies from a nebulous entity called “the British,” positioning American identity as being in opposition to British ...

This helped to gain a lot of support for the Indian independence movement. For some people living in Britain, the British Empire meant that they were able to migrate to different colonies and take ...

The US unilaterally declaring independence from Britain in 1776, and securing its independence via the Treaty of Paris seven years later following a bloody war, would not be an obstacle to membership.

Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this. It had been part ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England ... that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them ...

According to Ray, the British retreat in the INA case set off the process in London of granting complete independence to ...

He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the ...