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    The colonists changed their minds from tolerating to envying Britain. However the war altered the relationship between Britain and her american colonies because Britain was enable to be as active politically and economy. Therefore that’s why the colonists changed their minds about Britain‚ there mother country stood and how they felt about them. The french and indian war was given many different names on the american lands.‚ but it was much bigger than just the war in america. It was part of a world

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    America was or was not justified in breaking away from Great Britain? America had every right‚ mind and aspect‚ to throw off the almost inexorable chains of Great Britain. Not only declaring war against the British was justified‚ but it was the only choice America had. From the very beginning‚ (when the colonists first migrated to America) the colonists were displeased with Great Britain’s law-makings and government. When diplomatic options and agreements with Great Britain failed‚ America realized

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    The American Colonist wanted to free themselves from Great Britain because Britain was applying to much control over the colonies. The colonist believed that it was their right to over throw a government that didn’t protect their rights. The colonies were used to very little involvement from Britain. When Britain started to control everything they did‚ they didn’t want to put up with it anymore. After the 7 year war Britain was really high in debt. They started to make them pay new taxes and help

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    American Revolution: What Were they Really Fighting For? I: Introduction A superficial understanding of the Revolutionary War may lead to believe that it was struggle in which the purpose of the colonists was to rid themselves of the cruelty and tyranny associated with the British colonial regime. This is simply not true‚ or at the very least‚ it is not the whole truth. For the most part‚ the inhabitants of the colonies took pride in calling themselves Englishmen‚ and under the so-called tyrannical

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    The colonists were completely justified in waging war against the British. It was their time to break away and to work for their own individual independence. They only really had one choice that would have worked and that choice was to fight a war against the British. Some of the justifications in wanting to fight this war can be found in documents such as Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and The Declaration of Independence and taxes such as the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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    I believe the American colonist should be allowed to become independent from Great Britain because Great Britain’s protection is no use for the American colonists due to them being in a discomforting place with Great Britain’s enemies‚ gain nothing with their connection for trading‚ and also because Great Britain only fights for their own sake; they do not defend the American colonist out of kindness. The American Colonists think of themselves as citizens of Great Britain and subjects of the king

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    The Mexican-American War was a war between the United States and Mexico which lasted from April 1846 to February 1848. It stemmed from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The war was the most devastating event in Mexican history‚ where Mexico lost the modern day areas of California‚ Arizona‚ New Mexico‚ Nevada‚ Colorado and Montana. The Mexican-American spawned out of land lust

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    Why did we break away from Great Britain? We wanted our independents‚ so don’t you think by controlling the Philippines‚ Guam‚ and Puerto Rico we are acting like ”Great Britain”? Going into these country’s and trying to force your government ideas‚ putting your army in foreign land‚ and controlling there economics sound un-American to me. The government should consider what is at stake if we enter these foreign territories. If we try to imply our ways government ideas what would happen? That brings

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    The colonists felt that the british government was being unfair‚ and rightfully so. The british was pressing unfair taxes onto the colonists in order to gain money to fix their own problems. This was a smart move for the british considering that the colonists didn’t have much firepower.... Or at least that’s what the British thought. Picture in your head if you were being taxed for a lot of money by someone who had absolute power‚ and you had no say in the matter. How would you feel? The American

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    The Civil War started April 12‚1861 with the attack on Fort Sumter. It was a war fought to preserve the Union and to free the slaves in the South. The North was more justified then the South for fighting the civil war because president Abraham Lincoln was trying to abolish slavery and bring the Union back together. The South was trying to keep slavery because without it there would be no one to pick the cotton‚ and that at the time was how the South made money. The civil war began with the attack

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