John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will forever be known as the Founding Fathers of the United States. But did you know that these two powerful men are actually friends? John Adams and Thomas Jefferson started out as great friends. They both passed away on the same day, July 4, 1826, precisely fifty years after the …
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Who would’ve thought that removing a single passage from the Declaration of Independence could have changed the evolution of historical events? Let’s find out more. In Thomas Jefferson’s draft, the Declaration of Independence contained an entire passage that condemned slavery. He cited slavery as one of the many evils imposed upon the colonized nations by …
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Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship For other uses, see Marrakesh Treaty (disambiguation). In December 1777, the Moroccan Sultan Muhammad III included the United States in a list of countries to which Morocco’s ports were open. Morocco thus became the first country whose head of state publicly recognized the newly independent United States.[failed verification] Relations were formalized …
