The American Revolutionary War Begin in 1775 as an open battle between the combined thirteen colonies and Great Brittan. The colonies won their independence in 1783 by The Treaty of Paris. The colonists had come to the New World seeking political, religious, and economic independence. The geographical distance helped to create an exclusive identity for the colonies. Americans felt that they deserved all the rights that Englishmen had. The British felt that the colonies were created to be used in the best way that suited the crown and parliament, meaning mercantilism where the colonies exist to benefit the mother country.
There is no one event that started the rebellion against British Crown. However, there was an enormous number of abuses and insults which taken as a whole convinced the …show more content…
The political culture during this time was extreme views, two parties had emerged during this period it was the federalist and the republicans. Each party regarded its opponents as a dangerous faction of ambitious men striving to increase their wealth and power at the expense of the other republican liberty. Republicans accused Washington and Hamilton of being British agents and monarchists as; federalist denounced Jefferson as an atheist and his partisans as a pack of blood drinking cannibals. The election of 1880 was the 24th quadrennial presidential election. It was largely seen as a referendum on the end of reconstruction in the southern states carried out by the Republicans. There were no pressing issues of the day save tariffs, with the republicans supporting higher tariffs and the democrats supporting lower ones. James A Garfield won the election capturing 214 of the 369 electoral votes