...From 1774 to 1783, American colonists worked to gain independence from British rule. Through a series of events the British dug a hole that they could not sway the majority of colonists from relinquishing ties with them. Before any of the colonists even came to the America’s they had acquired a national government and had a plan of governing themselves. Because both sides were stubborn and felt in the right, there would be no compromise between the colonists and Britain. “Even before America had declared itself a nation, it had acquired a national government” (The American Journey, Page 145). The colonists who came to America wanted to gain freedom from England and other countries. We already learned that many colonists came here for religious freedom or wanted to seek a more fruitful life that would yield money for better living conditions. Unfortunately,...
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...How the French and Indian War Helped Cause the American Revolutionary War The French and Indian war was one of the biggest contributing factors to the American Revolutionary War. How, one might ask? It provided us with the needed moral and spirit to have feelings of resentment against the British. It gave us the needed circumstances to take action against Great Britain, and gave us our greatest ally in the Revolutionary War against what was considered the most powerful empire at the time. Without these factors, among others, it is very possible that America could have lost the war against the British. The first reason is that, The British’s debt from the French and Indian War caused the British to start paying closer attention to the American Colonies, or more accurately they started to pay attention to the American colonies’ taxable resources. Before the war Great Britain hardly payed any attention to the American colonies, but with the debt of the war greatly...
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...for American Independence was caused by the conflicts between the 13 colonies and Britain. Although not every colonist was for the war, there was a great enough following for the colonists to believe that going to war was the only way to gain independence from the British. However, in order for this war to take place, there needed to be events leading up towards the war or the war would have no justification. Of course, the colonists were severely outnumbered so other nations that may have not been as powerful as Britain but certainly much more powerful than the colonists, came to the colonists aid. Of course, before the war there was already growing tensions between the colonists and Britain....
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...government, the colonists started to obtain acts and taxes from Britain, their mother country, which decreased their freedom. Britain declared that the colonists will start to pay taxes in order to make up the money owed for the war. The colonists boycotted and peacefully protested against these acts, but because matters were only getting worse than being solved, this provoked the American Revolution to occur and violence to erupt. The colonists were justified in seeking independence from Britain. After they weren't even allowed to expand to the land the British obtained after the war, that they helped fight for, they had every right to refuse to pay taxes toward the British. In addition, the other acts made by Britain also signified unfair treatment. The situation commenced when the Parliament, who create laws for Britain, created acts against the colonists. For example, the Quartering Act...
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... A1, B, B1, Aubert Part A, A1 What is colonialism and how did it affect North America? How did the natives respond? Colonialism is the characteristics of a specific colony of people that have established a new territory yet still is under the authority of the parent country that sent them. In 1607, the king of England sent an assembly of employed men to North America with a dedicated purpose to establish new business for increased wealth, first colonized in Jamestown, Virginia. They were greeted by the Indian natives and a peaceful relationship was formed. They established a union of trust and traded goods such as corn, tobacco, metal tools to name a few. As time went on, the Indian natives were apprehensive and suspicious regarding the colonist’s agenda and soon stopped trading. As a result, the colonists began to die for lack of food. The colonists retaliated by force, initiating raids, stealing food, and then burning the native’s homes. English monarchy sent a fleet for reinforcement which led to the massacre of the Indians thus allowing them to take governmental control over the colonized land and bring the English domain to the New World. The Indian Massacre of 1622 is one example of war. This was a war in which both sides tried to annihilate each other. It had begun when the Indians realized that the settlers were mainly concerned with taking all their land away from them. If it did not help the colonist then they would fight the Indians. This continued for several...
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...The American Revolution was the uprising of the existing thirteen American colonies to gain independence from Britain in the mid 1700’s. The American colonists began questioning Britain’s authority as early as the French and Indian War. During the French Indian War, the colonies wanted to defend themselves against the French in North America. They asked King George for permission to raise armies in order defend themselves. Although their reason to raise an army was sincere, George II was suspicious of the intentions of the colonial government and disapproved their petition. After the French Indian War, Britain decided to raise money by taxing the American Colonists for reparations. Taxes such as the Stamp and Tea Acts created controversy throughout the citizens. Some thought that Britain stepped over the boundary with taxes and some reacted violently. The Boston Tea Party as well as the Boston Massacre arose from such actions. With Britain’s Intolerable acts, the colonists made a daring proposition. The colonists, in the First Continental Congress sent a letter to King George declaring war. Although the British government likely procured strong reasons for limiting the opportunities, rights, and freedoms available to American colonists under British rule, the American Colonists were justified in their desire to claim independence from the British government due to taxation without representation in government meetings, limitations by laws that restricted their freedom and the...
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...colonist’s rights. The Declaration of Independence is a document in which gave freedom and liberties to people who lived in the American colonies. Many American colonists were unhappy with the British because of how they were treating them and therefore sought for equality and rights. However, some colonists had different views toward the American independence movement. Yet, the outcome changed America forever. American colonies felt that Britain was trying to take away their rights and liberties by enforcing new laws and imposing taxes upon them. The British established the Sugar Act, which lowered the tax on molasses. Even though they lowered the tax the colonists were left furious because they didn’t want Britain to be in control of them. This Act enforced colonists not to smuggle. The colonists were angered by this because they were used to smuggling and when the British established this tax they felt that they were being forced to pay a tax which had them feeling like they were having their rights taken away. Another tax that angered the colonists was the Stamp Act. This was a tax on all printed documents and it gave the parliament permission to regulate all the trade. This led colonists to protest “no taxation without representation”. It was the concept of who is representing the colonies. They felt like they had no one representing them and that they were being taken over by the British government. American colonists organized protest groups such as the Sons...
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...The American colonist sought to gain more land to be able to settle and to grow financially and have a good standard of living. Into the 1750s, the colonist were able to obtain more land that the British helped them win. Although these colonist were able to obtain this land they were not satisfied with the British and wanted to obtain their freedom. The colonist began to have a stronger urge of freedom as the British began to abuse their powers in the colonies. The constant taxation acts being placed on the colonist led them to revolt against the British and declared war as they desired to obtain their liberty. “Through the military intelligence that the colonist had they were able to win their victory from the British July 4, 1776.”1 Although...
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...Years War. Afterwards, American colonists felt proud of themselves in their effort during the war. America was told they were going to become a mighty empire, however, not an independent one, which led to a Revolution. This Revolution resulted in the Declaration of Independence from England, and the creation of a new Nation. Not long after, Americans fought a second one for Independence, due to the fact that Americans still felt restrictions being placed on them by the British, and that their Independence was not as it should have been. Some may say that the war was unnecessary, however, these occurrences were inevitable. At first, the relationship...
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... King George did not feel a separation between Britain and his colonies despite a large ocean separating them. The separation caused the people to see how great it was without the Britain’s. The American Revolution was irreparable because of the Intolerable Acts which pushed the colonists to there limits causing a separating between land and the birth of The United States of America. The Intolerable Acts pushed the colonists to there limits. The relationship between the colonies there home land, Britain degraded with the start of mercantilism and the Navigation Acts. This Act angered the colonist but it wasn't a breaking...
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...beliefs. Samuel Adams may have used strategy one: analyzing a single statement for what is means by asking yourself if the statement makes sense and if so responding with a yes or no answer. Adams was not only an extremist but a political writer speaking to issues that directly affected colonies like the Stamp Act and tea distribution from East India. Both of these events affected many colonists in a negative way because the Stamp Act added taxation to certain products, while India tea imports, caused some colonists to lose money from their own tea sells. Adams would have had to ask himself why these acts where just or unjust by analyzing them individually in a literal sense. He publicly came to the conclusion that these acts were unjust because they both caused colonists to lose money and also put a damper on their personal values and liberty. Another strategy he may have used it number 3, which is when something that is presented as factual isn’t and therefore needs an explanation on why it can or can’t be validated. By evaluating and concluding in his writings that colonists should not be taxed without the proper representation to back up this very law. He successfully evaluated this situation for what it was, an illegal...
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...The Battle of the Alamo in 1836 is an important battle in Chicano history from the Texas Revolution. The battle was a conflict between both Mexico and the colonists in Texas that altered the future of Mexico, Texas, and the United States of America. The chain of events and tensions between the two forces led to the Battle of the Alamo and created a different environment for both the US and Mexico. Events That Led to the Battle of the Alamo Before the Battle of the Alamo began, there are events and rising tensions that fueled the commencement of the battle. The conflict between both Mexico and the Texas colonists begins with the colonization of Texas, which led to the Texas Revolution and Texas’s independence. Colonization in Texas began...
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...Before the start of the American Revolution in 1775, conflict arose between colonist and British authorities. As the British government attempted to impose taxes on the colonies, most notably within the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariff of 1767, and the Tea Party of 1773, colonist became angered by their lack of representation. Specific, a say in how tax revenue was spent. The taxes collected in America would go to England into the Parliament coffers. They demanded they have the same rights and benefits as those of mainland England. Colonial retaliation led to the Boston Massacre, a violent event when the British opened fire on a group of colonist and to the death of five men. Three years later, a group of Bostonian patriots dressed up as Mohawk Indians, sneaked onto the British ships, and dumped taxed tea from Parliament into the Boston Harbor. Angered by their actions, the British imposed the Coercive Act on Massachusetts to reassert imperial authority. The Coercive Act closed Boston to merchant shipping, set up British military rule in Massachusetts, and made colonists to quarter British troops....
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...Three Similar but Different Wars Justin P. Wilson Excelsior College Abstract Wars share similarities in cause, though not all are the same. The same goes for effects. The French & Indian War, Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812 all share this. Each war had its similarities but each war had its own outcomes and reasons for the start of the war. Each war was a turning point in the history of the newly independent United States. Three Similar but Different Wars The Revolutionary war, War of 1812, and the French and Indian war had similar yet different effects on the new United States. The young United States would learn new ways of fighting and dealing with conflicts. Each war had its similarities but each war had its own outcomes and reasons for the start of the war. Each war was a turning point in the history of the newly independent United States. The French and Indian war was a starting point for the American Revolutionary War. The War of 1812 was a war to expand and verify territory borders. All the wars involved the British, French, and the Americans. The War of 1812 and the French and Indian War involved the Indians. Each war had a different treaty or agreement that settled the disagreement and evolved the way the countries fought and handled disputes. The French and Indian war was composed of three different phases. The leading causes started back in Europe with the King George’s War, which took place in between the years of 1744 and 1748. The first...
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...The original colonists settled in America to escape oppression due to their religion or political affiliation, therefore from the beginning, Americans were instilled with a desire for freedom and independence. However, in the beginning, the small colonies did need help form the British government to start up. Once they’d outgrown the crown however, it was that same sense of pride and identity, a drive for freedom that led the Thirteen Colonies to rebel against Britain, and it was that sense which allowed them to overcome all odds and eventually gain their independence. Though most colonists already had the desire for freedom within them, there were a number of events which pushed them closer to trying to gain that freedom, many of them...
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