UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1988 · Q5(b) · 20 marks
'At the news of the Declaration of Independence crowds gathered to cheer, fire guns and cannon and ring church bells in Philadelphia. Boston and other places, but there were many people in America who did not rejoice'.
- Chapter
- Origins of Modern Politics
- Topic
- The American Revolution
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