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American Revolution
Boston and taxes played a primary role in the American Revolution. Mounting tension occurred after the French and Indian War because British rule began to tighten its hold over the colonies. For,...
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French Revolution, The
The people expressed their resentment towards the oppressive absolute monarchs by supporting the revolution in their countries. America stood against King George while France rejected King Louis...
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History
In his book Forced Founders, author Woody Holton contradicts the commonly held belief that weaker groups in America, such as the "Indians, merchants, and slaves," were merely puppets of the gentry....
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History
As an Episcopal minister, Jonathan Boucher opposed the American Revolution based on the grounds that insubordinate behavior was unbiblical. Hence, in his twelfth discourse, he argues that...
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American Revolution
In any human engagement, there is always a psychological factor. So, even though the Americans were outnumbered and under-equipped, they were determined to break from the oppression of the British...
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History
The Revolution and the writing of the Constitution were both very important events in the history of the United States. However, the writing of the Constitution resolved many more issues than the...
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History
One profound way in which the 24 years had changed Americans resided in seeing their nation move from being a colony of England to its own independent nation. Americans themselves had changed from...
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History
In answering this question, I will assume that the “beginning of the American Revolution” dates back to the Stamp Act of 1765. In other words, the “American Revolution” for these purposes,...
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History
Although both the Revolution and the writing of the Constitution were, of course, of major importance to the United States, the Constitution resolved many more issues than the Revolution did. Let...
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History
In some ways, the American colonists felt that the British were oppressing them because the British actually were doing so. One example of this would be the Massachusetts Government Act, in which...
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Slavery
The Founding Fathers could have, and should have ended slavery, but the practice was so common throughout the world, including in the Americas, and economies so dependent upon the low-cost labor...
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American Revolution
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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History
First, please note that the American colonists did not win their independence in 1776. That was the year in which they declared independence. The war still went on for a few years after that...
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History
The answers to the two parts of this question are at least somewhat different. While the war and the Early Republic period were very close in time, they were also very different from one another....
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History
There were two additional important results of the "massacre" and the trial. First, because the defense of the soldiers was led by John Adams, one of the most important members of the...
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation between Colonists and British soldiers. On March 5, 1770, a collection of Colonists from different narratives gathered around the Customs House in Boston....
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History
One specific aspect of life that was present during and before the American Revolution that makes its presence known in the writing of early American political documents is the emphasis on...
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History
As we answer this question, we must keep in mind that the American rebels were not one monolithic group that all had the same goals. This means that different rebels would have been making...
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American Revolution
There were a few main strategies that were deployed by the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. Let us look at three of them. One of these strategies was guerrilla warfare. We should not...
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American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence was written because Thomas Jefferson and some of his contemporaries had had enough and weren't going to take it anymore. What exactly they had had enough of remains...
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History
An often overlooked outcome of the French and Indian War is that American colonists, who fought along with British regular troops during the war, inadvertently discovered the myth of British...
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History
In one sense, tea was not really the issue between the colonists and the British government. Instead, what was really at stake was the issue of taxation. The colonists did not like the fact that...
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History
While I do agree that many Americans were fighting for independence more than for democracy, I think that it is a bit of an overstatement to say that democracy was only an afterthought. When...
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History
For racial minorities, the Revolution was not a particularly good thing. The Revolution did little good for slaves and it was largely harmful to Native Americans. Native Americans who participated...
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History
I would argue that the nonviolent methods used by the colonists were more effective. They tended to get positive results whereas the violence led to more negative results. One violent method used...
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History
The major purpose of the Proclamation of 1763 was to maintain good relations between the British and the Native Americans. We can also speculate that a secondary purpose was to exert British...
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American Revolution
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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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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American Revolution
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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American Revolution
It is fair to make this statement, but we should be aware that the strategic factors that contributed to the colonies’ victory were much more important than the tactical. The American colonists...
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American Revolution
For the most part, self- government was seen as more desirable than Colonial rule because of autonomy. After the French and Indian War, it became evident to the colonists that they were able to...
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American Revolution
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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History
The overriding goal of the British at the start of the Revolutionary War was to maintain a firm hold on the colonies. Britain, of course, ruled an empire that literally stretched around the world....
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American Revolution
First, we must realize that not all of the American colonists did decide to become independent. Some of them actively supported Britain even after the war started. Others really didn’t care....
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History
I am not exactly sure what it means to “consider the colonial response.” I hope the following will be helpful. The colonial response to the British after the French and Indian War can be seen...
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History
English attitudes toward the North American colonies changed in important ways after the French and Indian War. These changes did a great deal to bring about conflict between the colonists and the...
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American Revolution
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
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...
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American Revolution
While there is much to be said for the previous answer, there are also places where I would take issue with it. Mainly, it is very hard to agree with the idea that those who won the war were...
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American Revolution
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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American Revolution
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
There were two main reasons why the Second Continental Congress chose George Washington (rather than some other person) as the commander in chief of the Continental Army. One reason was political,...
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American Revolution
There is no objectively correct answer to this question. People could argue for the importance of more than one battle in this war. I would argue, however, that the Battle of Saratoga was the...
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American Revolution
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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American Revolution
The answer to this would have differed at different times in colonial history. For example, before the French and Indian War, one reason why the colonies should not have tried to claim...
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American Revolution
The American reaction to a similar situation today would be similar to that of the colonists. If anything, modern Americans might react even worse than the colonists did. In colonial times, the...
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American Revolution
The main significance of these two battles is that they were the first two armed conflicts of what became the Revolutionary War. The battles were not particularly significant in military terms,...
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American Revolution
Speaking from the broadest of perspectives, I would say that one of the motivating factors behind the colonial soldier fighting in the American Revolution resided in the realm of the intangible....
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American Revolution
The original question had to be edited down. This would have to be addressed in the broadest of contexts. Legions of books and articles have been written on the American Revolution, testament to...
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American Revolution
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...