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Benjamin Franklin said this famous line at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. The meaning of the quote was that the signers of the Declaration, as well as...
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An allusion is a brief or casual reference to some famous person (real or fictional), quotation, work of art, or other such well-known thing. In this speech, the allusions are mainly taken from the...
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The American Revolution had an impact on other countries. The American Revolution served as a model for other countries to follow when they decided to become free from their colonial rulers....
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The colonists faced many hardships during the Revolutionary War. One of the hardships was that many colonists were loyalists. These loyalists supported the British for many reasons. Some believed...
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The British switched to a southern military strategy after General Henry Clinton arrived in the colonies to take over command of British troops from William Howe. Clinton decided that the British...
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There are several reasons why the colonists separated from Great Britain. One reason was the passage of the Proclamation of 1763 and the Quartering Act. After the French and Indian War, the British...
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I am going to assume that the question is asking for reasons to be a British Loyalist during the Revolutionary War time period in United States history. There were definitely reasons to be a...
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I am certain that you would be able to find many different reasons as to why the Americans won in the Revolutionary War. I think that any standard US History book could indicate this. I would...
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In some ways, the Revolutionary War can be viewed as a civil war. British citizens were pitted against British citizens. There were people, called loyalists, who believed we should stay with Great...
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Washington faced many obstacles. The first was the fact that his Continental Army was typically outnumbered in most engagements, and that the British had the naval power to move troops from one...
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There were a number of factors that allowed the American colonies to win the Revolutionary War. Let us look at some of the more important of these factors. Greater motivation. The colonists really...
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It is certainly possible to argue that the colonists were not justified in rebelling against Britain. Although the colonists portrayed the British government as a tyrannical despotism, it is easy...
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Although we think of the Revolutionary War as something that all Americans were behind, it really was not that way. Only a minority of Americans were actually strong supporters of the American...
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Both the Haitian and American Revolutions were motivated to some extent by ideas of natural rights. In Haiti, planters justified demands for their own independence in these terms, free men of...
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The American Revolution happened mainly on the East Coast of what is now the United States. There was fighting all up and down the East Coast, but there was very little fighting very far inland....
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Metaphors for the Revolutionary War: 1. If the Revolutionary War were a shower, what would the soap represent? 2. If the Revolutionary War were a divorce, what would the husband and wife...
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In a historical argument like this one, both sides tend to have value. I suppose I fall on the side that the relationship between England and her American colonies could not have been saved....
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Since you have posted this under history, I assume that you are asking about the issue about "funding at par" of government debt after the Revolutionary War. During the war, governments had...
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The main issue was funding. The Articles of Confederation did not allow the national government to demand payment from any particular colony, and many soldiers went unpaid or without supplies for...
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I think one of the issues that has to be said is the issue of taxation. I like discussing this issue because of how it still applies to today's populations. Taxes exist, and they provide all kinds...
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Maybe in the short run, yes. But in the long run, there was no way that this was going to be avoided, in my opinion. In the short run, the Revolution would surely have been avoided if the British...
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The British featured some distinct strategies in seeking to win the Revolutionary War. For the most part, these strategies were rooted in the idea that there was no real way that the Colonists...
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One of the most important differences in the construction of firearms around the time of the American Revolution is the transition that was taking place between the musket and the rifle. Many...
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The major effect of the American Revolution was, of course, that the United States became an independent nation. This was important to the Americans living at the time and it has become even more...
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During the Revolutionary War, the British switched to a southern strategy that ultimately failed. The British started fighting in New York. However, due to a variety of missteps, they weren’t...
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The American victory in the Revolutionary War was nothing short of amazing. Nobody would have predicted an American victory. Even Britain’s rivals, France and Spain, waited some time before...
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One way the American Revolution altered gender roles was the emergence of an ideology that historian Linda Kerber called "republican motherhood". This was the concept that women had an important...
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The British and American armies had different strengths and weaknesses going into the Revolutionary War. The British had a superior army. Numbers, training and supplies were all on the British...
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There was unrest in the Thirteen Colonies for many years before the Revolutionary War. New taxes, such as the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act, were considered unfair. The Colonists were not...
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I would argue that very little changed for slaves as a result of the American Revolution. The Revolution was not fought in any way for the sake of the freedom of slaves and so it did not really...
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France did a great deal to help the American colonists during their war for independence from the United Kingdom. It is possible to argue that the American colonists would not have won the war if...
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The reasons for the success of the Patriots can be enumerated and explained in a relatively simple and straightforward manner, maybe surprisingly so for the complexity and importance of the event:...
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Thomas Paine was an American author who wrote largely political documents about the American Revolution. He strongly protested British taxation. He wrote the pamphlet Common Sense to encourage...
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There were several key points in the Revolutionary War. One key point was the Battle of Saratoga. The British had hoped to isolate the New England colonies from the rest of the colonies by winning...
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The American colonists gained their independence from Britain after a long struggle. At first, the colonists began to peacefully protest laws and policies they felt were unfair. These included...
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While the American Revolution had very radical effects for white, land-owning men in the colonies, the effects of the revolution were limited in that they did not extend to women, slaves and freed...
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The Revolutionary War, for the most part, did not improve the lot of women, African Americans, or Native Americans. While about 9,000 African Americans (both free and enslaved) fought in the...
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Radical. If the forefathers of this country had failed in their attempt to break from England, they would have been tried for treason and executed.Thomas Paine ("These are the times that try...
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Americans were divided into three groups during the war: Patriots, Loyalists, and fence-sitters. Also, by the end of the war, class divisions (among white people) had lessened in both social and...
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The brutality and violence of the Revolutionary War is exhibited in several massacres that occurred. First, the Cherry Valley Massacre of 1778 saw a mixture of Loyalists (to the crown) and Native...
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Propaganda is something that is very hard to define. In a sense, it is simply the process of putting out information that is meant to convince people to believe in a certain point of view....
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The social changes of the American Revolution were limited mostly because it was a political revolution, not a social one. The patriots who waged the War for Independence were not so much concerned...
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This would probably not be the most popular question so far as a US audience is concerned, but if we think of a purely technical analogy between disease and the War of Independence, it could go as...
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By nature, war is designed to inflict pain on both military and civilians alike. While the military suffers from casualties as the result of battle, civilians are dramatically impacted in ways less...
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Both the Americans and British had unique sets of advantages and disadvantages leading up to the American Revolution. In terms of advantages, the British had many. They had more of everything a...
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The British lacked sufficient troops to fight in all theaters of operations during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). There was no draft at the time, so raising troops was often problematic....
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The thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence for a few reasons. The decision to declare independence, however, was not welcomed by all segments of the colonial population....
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The United States gained its independence from Britain by winning the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). This is in contrast to Canada, which gained its independence from England in a gradual and...
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To a great extent, the desire for change causes people to revolt. Suffering is a part of this. Essentially, I think that any notion of change comes out of understanding a particular predicament...
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One major reason was logistics. While the colonies did not possess much in the way of material with which to make war, they had their materials available. Britain, on the other hand, had to wait...