How Did The American Revolution Change Society
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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 once British control over the colonies was over. People lived the way they wanted to live, they weren’t taxed as heavily, and they were finally free to worship however they pleased. I think that all of the documents had a political effect on everything. For instance, the Woodcut of Patriot Woman, Marblehead, MA, 1779 explained that the woman in the picture was going off to war to liberate herself and her family from English rule. It’s …show more content…
The Message to Congress from the Chickasaw Chiefs, July 1783 talks about the Indians just wanting to be friends and being hopeful for the future, and in The united Indian Nations, Speech at the Confederate Council, 1786, it says that the Indians were disappointed in the fact that the British treated the Indians badly and that the Indians expected more kindness and friendship from the British. When settlers first came here, they were kinder to the Natives, and once they weren’t dependent of the Indians for learning the cultivation of food, they treated them awfully. I think that never really changed. They were always driven out of places because of the greed of the British. The colonists wanted the Tories to go back to England because they felt like the Loyalists were trying to make the colonies the same as England, which the colonists wanted to get away from. They figured that if the Loyalists loved England so much, why didn’t they just go
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 once British control over the colonies was over. People lived the way they wanted to live, they weren’t taxed as heavily, and they were finally free to worship however they pleased. I think that all of the documents had a political effect on everything. For instance, the Woodcut of Patriot Woman, Marblehead, MA, 1779 explained that the woman in the picture was going off to war to liberate herself and her family from English rule. It’s …show more content…
The Message to Congress from the Chickasaw Chiefs, July 1783 talks about the Indians just wanting to be friends and being hopeful for the future, and in The united Indian Nations, Speech at the Confederate Council, 1786, it says that the Indians were disappointed in the fact that the British treated the Indians badly and that the Indians expected more kindness and friendship from the British. When settlers first came here, they were kinder to the Natives, and once they weren’t dependent of the Indians for learning the cultivation of food, they treated them awfully. I think that never really changed. They were always driven out of places because of the greed of the British. The colonists wanted the Tories to go back to England because they felt like the Loyalists were trying to make the colonies the same as England, which the colonists wanted to get away from. They figured that if the Loyalists loved England so much, why didn’t they just go