be an integral part of African American culture. That historical turning point is celebrated as a reminder that freedom is a treasure. This day is nationally recognized as Juneteenth. But what did newfound freedom really look like for a former slave teenager? As a teenager myself‚ I imagine their first thought would be to reconnect with family members that had been snatched away from them and sold to other slave owners. Family means everything to the African American community and I visualize life
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The American Revolution was as a result of the colonists questioning the intrusion by Great Britain into their progress. It erupted into armed conflict in the year 1775. The political upheaval that occurred in the thirteen colonies lead to the formation of the United States of America after the British were overthrown. The armed conflict ended in 1783 but the young American nation had a bigger task to set up a government. Independence was the beginning of America’s’ problems as the country faced
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Document - Based Question 1 The American Revolution changed society in a lot of different ways. People questioned the political ideas of themselves and others. The strive for Democracy was great. The rights of women and slaves were controversial subjects‚ but debated as well as religious persecution and taxation without representation; struggle was still there. Our economy was weakened‚ and farmers nearly created chaos because of the obscene taxation and little to no representation. Everything changed
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During the mid-eighteenth century‚ a tremendous wave of religious revival swept through the British colonies in North America. Coined “The Great Awakening”‚ it is thought to be the first mass social movement in American history. Although the movement was most prominent in the middle and southern colonies‚ it would continue on to have an immense impact on the entirety of the colonies. Much like the Enlightenment‚ the Great Awakening encouraged individual thought and the use of new ideas to question
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INTRODUCTION African Americans have had a rough history since the 1600s. This is because white people went to Africa and captured Africans and brought them to North America. While they were in North America‚ they were treated horribly because of their skin color. For example‚ they raped the women‚ whipped them‚ killed them and kept them away from their family. These events took place in the south‚ but in 1861 the north and the president Abraham Lincoln didn’t agree with slavery. This started the
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Ever since English settlers have went across the seas to see the New World something was always coming up. We have dealt with how to survive and the British trying to take over our country and controlling everything we do. We finally decided that it was our time to tell the British to stop and we were ready to fight back. It was our time to show we know how to run a country on our own. The American Revolution was an outburst between America and Britain. This revolution started because of many
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In Alan Taylor’s book American Colonies‚ he describes how boundaries are important on various levels to explain the past. Taylor refutes the idea of teleology‚ which is the belief that certain events lead to a predetermined outcome‚ and uses contingency with no conclusion and unorganized past. In the introduction of the book we see the environmental‚ ethnohistory‚ and Atlantic perspective being used to interpret every angle of history. I have decided to use chapter 2 “colonizers” to describe how
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Causes of the American Revolution The American Revolution was caused by the colonists disagreeing with the British. The things that the british and colonists disagreed on were the Proclamation of 1763. One of the many things that the colonists thought needs changed is how the colonies approach war‚ which is why the political cartoon of a snake was made. The stamp act taxed most goods in the colonies. The Quartering Act angered colonists‚ and strengthened distrust between the colonists and the british
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1700’s‚ Britain’s settlers divided into three distinct cultures within America. The New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern colonies were formed because of their differences in religious beliefs‚ geographic aspects‚ and occupation types. The variety of religious view in the New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern colonies helped evolve the differences between them. The New England colonies heavily practiced puritanism. Puritanism was a strict religion that’s main ideal was “everything you do affects all of
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2.) Explain the role that women played in the colonies in your own words. Women were not as highly respected as men in the colonies. They were denied higher education and their ultimate task was to bear and raise children for their husbands. Women were almost treated as items. The only respectable option for women at that time was marriage. They were thought of as weak compared to men. Women also worked on the farms. Without them‚ the farm could not survive. They made cloth‚ garments‚ candles
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