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American Revolution
The goals and the ideals were related, but not completely the same. The goal of the Revolution was simple; the colonists wanted to be independent from Britain. The ideals were connected to this,...
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American Revolution
The concept of virtual representation held that people like the American colonists did not need to be able to elect their own representatives to Parliament. The theory held that the members of...
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American Revolution
There were many reasons why people joined the Patriot side in this war. Among them were Ideology. Some people truly believed in the ideas of the Revolution. They believed that monarchy was...
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The basic cause of the growth of conflict was the tension between the British need for revenues and the American desire for autonomy. Before the French and Indian War, the American colonies had...
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The ideas of the Enlightenment helped lead to the American Revolution and American independence because they formed the philosophical basis for America’s claim that it should have more autonomy....
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What you have to remember when thinking about this is what a tremendously big step it was to declare independence. Britain was arguably the most powerful country in the world at the time. It was...
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The immediate effect of the American Revolution was that the American colonies became a free and independent country. This revolution did not bring about any other huge and immediate changes....
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American Revolution
It would be very difficult to argue that Revolution was a failure. You could argue that it did not accomplish everything that it should have, but you would be hard-pressed to say that it was not...
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The philosophical roots of the colonial rebellion came from Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke. These Enlightenment thinkers had a very specific view of the role of government. To them,...
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The support of France was important because France was a major power in the world, one that could help the colonies to have enough supplies and enough military power to defeat the British. Let us...
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The factors that led to the growth of American nationalism during this time are tied mainly to the French and Indian War. There were three main factors that came out of the war and led to more...
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One distinct way in which the Colonists were different from the British was that they were immigrants. Those who experienced success, landed wealth, and a sense of entitlement in their name and...
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American Revolution
Much of the history of the War of Independence is explainable in terms of the British inability to grasp the seriousness and the sheer extent of the resistance they were to encounter from the...
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American Revolution
Both the British and the Americans faced military challenges in the Revolutionary War. The British faced several challenges. They had to defend the entire empire. It would not be sufficient to...
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The best benefit that the patriots received from Spain and France during the Revolutionary War was the fact that the Americans were not having to fight alone. With Spain and France having the...
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There are three connected reasons why the British failed when they tried to use a “southern strategy” in the Revolutionary War. This strategy was based on the idea that there were many Loyalists...
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There were a number of specific things that the British did. For example, the British (in the Stamp Act of 1765) took away the right to trial by jury for people who were accused of violating that...
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At the time of the American Revolution, there were two major racial minorities in the United States. These were African Americans, most of whom were enslaved, and the Native Americans who were...
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American Revolution
The causes of the American Revolution were ideological insofar as the rebellion was caused by a desire for democracy and government by the consent of the governed. These were not the only causes...
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American Revolution
The American Revolution galvanized political and social change, not only in America, but also around the world. The Revolutionary War brought about three major social changes in the colonies. The...
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American Revolution
In the short term, the American Revolution was not revolutionary. The same kind of people held power in the United States as had held power in the colonies. There was no fundamental change in...
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In a confederation, states that are relatively independent come together for a shared goal. In a confederation, all states keep their final say and serve as their own ultimate power. For example,...
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Women experienced the Revolution and the war in a number of different ways. Many, of course, experienced bereavement as they lost husbands, sons, brothers, and other loved ones in the conflict....
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This statement is false. The Continental Army could not have spent the winter of 1777-1778 in Philadelphia in any conditions. Philadelphia was, at that time, in the hands of the British. The...
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The two most important differences between these two revolutions are that the French Revolution was more radical and, in a sense, more violent. First, the French Revolution was much more violent...
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This statement is true. The French did not send their entire military to join in the fight, but they did formally take the side of the colonists after this battle. Before the British surrendered...
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These famous words were spoken by Colonel William Prescott, the military commander in charge of patriot forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill. His order passed into legend almost as soon as it was...
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There are many reasons why the colonies were able to defeat Great Britain. Let us look at three of the most important: Help from France. It is almost inconceivable that the Americans could have...
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The role of African- Americans in the American Revolution mirrored much of the legacy that African- Americans played in the development of the nation. They bore a large amount of the sacrifice and...
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The political differences between the American colonists and the British were more differences of degree and differences of interests than they were differences in political ideologies. It is not...
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One can argue that the American Revolution was both a revolution as well as an evolutionary period. It served as a revolution because it fundamentally changed the nature of power in the new world....
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American Revolution
Ideas from the Enlightenment contributed to the American Revolution in at least two ways. First, ideas from the Enlightenment helped to convince the American colonists that they ought to break...
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Parliament implemented these sorts of policies largely because it needed more money. It had spent a tremendous amount of money on the Seven Years' War and needed to recoup some of that. Because...
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I assume that this question refers to the American victory in the Revolutionary War. This is the most prominent war in which exactly two countries helped America to win. I have changed the question...
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To some degree, the American Revolution was radical, as the American colonies revolted against a great imperial power. The Declaration of Independence enshrined the ideas that Americans had the...
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American Revolution
In my view there's little doubt that the Civil Rights movement and changing attitudes about race have affected the way the American Revolution has been perceived, by historians and to some extent...
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American Revolution
During the American Revolution, individuals living in the American colonies of Great Britain needed to make a decision whether to support the cause of independence or to remain loyal to their...
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There are at least two reasons for this. First, General Henry Clinton handled the Southern strategy badly. He antagonized many in the South who might have been loyal to the Crown. He did this,...
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If "radical" can be seen as groundbreaking or something unprecedented, I would suggest that the American Revolution represented this spirit in the manner in which the war was won. One reason would...
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The American colonies achieved their goal of independence through the Revolutionary War. In doing so, the colonies had to pull together and support the rebel army. In addition, they had to gain...
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The American Revolution originated with the French and Indian War and the changes that the British government made in the wake of that war. These changes went against the colonists' sense that...
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The major mistake of the British is that they failed to appreciate the colonists' desire to enjoy the rights of Englishmen, primarily the right to be taxed by their elected representatives rather...
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There are two ways to answer this question. On the one hand, you can say that the British in general wanted to seize these weapons. The weapons were being stockpiled so that they could be used in...
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One can argue that the American Revolution was not a revolution because it did not fundamentally change the social or even the political system of the American colonies. Before the Revolution, the...
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American Revolution
In order to assess the significance of the Revolutionary War on different social groups, you need to look at the lives of the people in these groups before and after. Specifically, you are looking...
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The Americans were able to prevail in the Revolutionary War (1775–1783) for three reasons. First, British generals committed a number of serious mistakes. Many of them were overconfident. They also...
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The French were the greatest ally of the American colonists. France was intrigued at the prospect of helping the Americans, as it would be a way to get back at Britain after France's loss in the...
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What your text is claiming is that there was little or no sense that the thirteen colonies were all one country at the beginning of the American Revolution. At that point, the people all saw...
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There are at least two ways to answer this question. On the one hand, we can say that the war was brought about because of the British government’s attempts to tax the colonies more and to exert...
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What Crispus Attucks represents in African American history is the idea that African Americans have been involved in an active and valuable way in American history since the earliest days of our...