Taryn Lindsey Mr. Willman HY135-107 18 February 2013 Uprising of a New Nation The American Revolution was a result of growing discontent between the thirteen colonies and Britain. The war began in April of 1775‚ when shots were fired in Lexington‚ Massachusetts. Eight years later‚ the war was put to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. A major conflict surrounding the war was “no taxation without representation”. The colonist believed in actual representation (the people)
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The Rebellion Of The Americans in 1776 The American colonists were put under extreme policies and harsh demands by their mother country‚ Britain. Most of‚ if not all of these led to the rebellion of the thirteen colonies. However‚ some of the factors prompted the rebellion more than others. These factors include the parliamentary taxation‚ Britain’s restriction of civil liberties and the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas. The factor which was the prime reason for the rebellion was
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The sugar act of 1764 was issued by the English parliament and the act taxed goods such as sugar and molasses. There were many protests over the sugar act because the act only taxed the colonies; this tax did not apply for Europeans. The sugar act was the birth of revolutionary thoughts among the thirteen colonies. After the first act came many more acts. The Stamp Act of 1765 stated that all legal documents‚ newspapers‚ and pamphlets must be stamped with an official stamp of approval from parliament
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Revolutionary War Project: West Point General George Washington‚ one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America‚ the Continental Army commander‚ and later the first president of the United States of America during the American Revolution declared West Point‚ as “the most important military position in America”[i]. West Point is located in New York‚ along the Hudson River and 50miles from New York City. West Point was a very strategic point during the American Revolution
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know about the Declaration of Independence is that it is really a letter of grievances against King George III. The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4‚ 1776‚ which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states‚ and no longer a part of the British Empire. Written mainly by Thomas Jefferson‚
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on‚ regional differences continued to form‚ most notably in the south‚ where slave labor was very important. 2. The population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its scarcity of women. 3. During the seventeenth century‚ indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many English colonies for all of the following reasons: a. The Indian population proved to be an unreliable work force because they died in such large numbers
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first established as the Thirteen Colonies‚ it was a long way back from where we are today in the matter of culture. The New England Colonies were mostly Christians‚ but some of them were Puritans. Puritans wished to purify‚ hence the name‚ and reform the Church of England. The Puritans did not last very long‚ but their original religion‚ Christianity‚ remained because of the Great Awakening. The Puritans were the most dynamic Christian force in the American colonies. In England‚ the Puritans
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Throughout the Great Depression in the 1930’s‚ authors wrote about the impractical American Dream. All thirteen colonies fought together against the British army‚ but by the end of the American Revolution‚ things had changed. The southern colonies had different perspectives than those of the northern colonies. The northern colonies were against slavery and wanted a federal government. The southern colonies wanted a “supreme” state for themselves‚ and they did support the slavery system which supplied inexpensive
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within the colonies. The English parliament passed numerous acts that increased colonial taxes‚ making the colonists angrier than ever. More and more Americans began to realize their place in society and the necessity for unity. Due to the uprising in levels of crisis the Americans needed to come together as one. America developed its identity through three distinct phases from 1750-1776. In the early stages of 1754‚ colonial unity was beginning to be discussed by several colonies but‚ as a society
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supplies for the British officials that were positioned in America protecting the colonists. The British had to tax in order to help provide the mother country and protect America. British government had deployed military officers across the thirteen colonies with the purpose of protecting the American colonists. Therefore‚ the colonists must pay a tax that goes towards the payment of officers. The colonists should be paying for their own protection. The British don’t have to provide the colonials
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