...Declaring Independence Every year there are parades, fireworks lighting up the sky, family and friends gathering with joy and excitement; Red, White, and Blue flags waiving as they are displayed on every street, as a commemoration of a great country’s birthday. The Fourth of July marks the anniversary of the glorious day in 1776 when America, a new nation declared its independence from the world. This celebration honors the courageous actions of not only the nation’s founders when signing the Declaration of Independence, but also the men and women that supported it, and the historical benchmarks that lead to America declaring its independence. While the writing of the Declaration of Independence was the pivotal point when America declared its independence from Great Britain, it was only a piece of a fundamental time when a nation endured great obstacles for the dream of true freedom. A time when taxes where raised by a king from across the ocean, soldiers ordered to quarter homes without consent, and patriots dying against an inevitable outcome. A time when colonists believed in the right of revolution, where they had an obligation to revolt and become independent from their tyrannical rulers. Many battles were fought and many lives were lost while Great Britain attempted to suppress the colonists in an attempt to encroach the colonists’ rights and freedoms, and prevent self-governance. Turning back in time to one major benchmark in February of 1765, Parliament...
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...Boston Tea Party, Declaration of Independence, and Katsushika Hokusai’s art, The Great Wave, were three of the greatest outcomes during the time period when the United States was just being found. The significance of the Boston Tea Party, The Declaration of Independence, and The Great Wave and their impact on society today will be discussed in this course paper. The Boston Tea Party is often referred to by John Adams as “The destruction of the Tea in Boston” (Boston Tea Party Facts, American Revolution). The Bosten Tea Party was a political protests by the Sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16, 1773. This act served as a protest against taxation. The colonists believed that they were being unfairly taxed by the British to...
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...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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...their 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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...resulted in independence for the colonies. This essay will explain why the thirteen colonies rebelled against Britain and how they were able to win their independence. Before the United States of America was its own country with fifty states, America was ruled by Great Britain. Under this British rule were the thirteen colonies. As of 1775, the thirteen colonies were British colonies...
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...pre-war event and explaining how it contributed to the Revolutionary War. Pre-War Event Description Contribution to the Revolutionary War French and Indian War This is the name American gave this war; this war was between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. This war was also known as the seven year war, in Great Britain it was known as King William's War or Queen Anne's War. With the end of the French & Indian War in 1763, the British government felt that the American colonies should cover a percentage of the cost associated with their defense. So the Parliament began passing a series of taxes designed to raise funds to offset this expense. Sugar Act The Sugar Act was passed in 1764. The British placed a tax on sugar, wine, and other important things. The Parliament wanted the money to help provide more security for the colonies. The Sugar Act made the people in the colonies pretty upset. If they only traded with Britain, they would not be able to sell their goods for as much. Some leaders in the colonies started to boycott, or to quite buying, British goods. Stamp Act The bill was passed on February 17, approved by the Lords on March 8th and weeks later ordered in effect by the King. The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. They need to get some of their money back after the French and Indian War. The colonies boycotted the stamp act, so it was overturned when Lord...
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...The United States victory over the British in the American Revolution stated with the idea to stand up for the rights of man, and to voice their opinions to the monarchy that ruled the colonist from across the sea. Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine wrote about independence from British, and diplomats such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson helped the Continental Congress start to challenge the oppressive British rule. The great leader of the Continental Army George Washington was the man who was responsible for leading the army to victory. The political challenges in the revolutionary war political, British government raised revenue to help cover the cost of the French and Indian war by taxing the colonies with the Stamp Act of 1765. The British thought it was fair to issue the tax on the people it spent all the money to protect. However, the speech in March of 1775 by Patrick Henry who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" encouraged the colonist to stand up for their rights. The British later repealed the acts, to try and appease the unrest in the colony. However, the British still needed money to pay their war debt, so the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 placed a tax on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Again, the colonist were unhappy, so in...
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...(7%), Pennsylvania-Dutch (6%) 3. What sorts of contributions did the Scots-Irish bring? (see “Makers” section too) They were westward pioneers, and helped make trails for people to follow. 4. What was the Paxton Boys uprising? A group...
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...University of Phoenix Material Causes and Outcomes of the Revolution Part 1: Causes Complete the grid by describing each pre-war event and explaining how it contributed to the Revolutionary War. |Pre-war event |Description |Contribution to the Revolutionary War | |French and Indian War|Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another |The French and Indian War helped lead to the Revolutionary War in two ways. | | |chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s | | | |expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims |First funding this war lead to a huge national debt for Great Britain, which they felt | | |of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British |the Americans should help pay. Parliament decided to service the debt by passing the | | |declaration of war in 1756. Boosted by the financing of future Prime Minister |stamp act, a terrible failure that angered citizens on both sides of the Atlantic, which | | |William Pitt, the British turned the tide with victories at Louisbourg, Fort |started the rift...
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...the events and issues surrounding the Boston Tea Party. The intention of the research will be to set the overall order of issues that emerged and establish the political context in which the Tea Party would take place, and then to discuss the impact of the incident on the colonies, that would ultimately lead to the Revolutionary War. Understanding the importance of the Boston Tea Party cannot be obtained without an understanding of the issues and events that preceded it. The Party, which occurred in 1773, had its origins several years earlier, in the wake of the French and Indian War, which ended in 1763. In 1766, Parliament passed the Quartering Act, which provided for "billeting, provisioning and discipline of British forces, requiring colonial assemblies to provide barracks and supplies such as candles, fuel, vinegar, beer and salt for the regulars, costs of the Army in America at the 'dictate' of Parliament" (Tuchman 167). Further to this point, the Seven Years' War was over; why the need for such a large standing army in America? This first Quartering Act was, however, obeyed in general terms, and even partly rescinded as to enforcement (182), until other Parliamentary measures pointed up colonists' feeling of oppression. By 1767, the Stamp Act had been passed, and then revoked in the face of an American boycott of covered goods. In 1767, the Townshend Acts legalized import duties on "glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea." The stated resolution of these duties was...
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...Twelve days later, the nine delegates met and soon adopted a Declaration of Rights and Grievances. This marked the first unified meeting of the American colonies to respond to the British colonial policies under the name of “The Stamp Act Congress”. One major event that turned the American colonists against the great King George III was the infamous Boston Massacre which killed five colonists on March 5th, 1770. “The British captain, Thomas Preston, and his men were tried for murder, with Robert Treat Paine as prosecutor, John Adams and Josiah Quincy as lawyers of the defense. Preston and six of his men were acquitted; two others were found guilty of manslaughter, punished, and discharged from the army.”(Boston Massacre Historical...
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...War of Independence or a Revolution? It should be understood that without understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution, one cannot grasp the history of the United State. The American Revolution was the political commotion during the end of the eighteenth century. The thirteen North American colonies united to break free of the British Empire and become a new nation; The United State of America. A revolution can be defined as, the change in power or the constitution stirring in a relatively short period of time. Aristotle described revolution as complete change from one constitution to another (Sinclair 190). And this is precisely what happened two centuries ago in the United State. But the question needed to be answered is, was the American War of Independence really a war for independence or a revolution? The American War of Independence (1775–1783) was a climax in the political American Revolution rather than just a war for independence, ideologically influenced by the Enlightenment philosophers and writers of the Great Britain. Benjamin Rush remarked in 1787, "The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed." 2 This drama staged in the Pennsylvania State House in summer of 1776 remains the only most important chapter in the archives of American Revolution. Although, the political atmosphere in France...
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...looked forward to a time of uninterrupted peace, expansion, and prosperity. Deeply proud of the British victory and their own identity as “free Britons,” they neither wanted nor foresaw what the next two decades would bring—independence, revolution, and yet another war. Independence The Seven Years’ War had left Great Britain with a huge debt by the standards of the day. Moreover, thanks in part to Pontiac’s Rebellion, a massive American Indian uprising in the territories won from France, the British decided to keep an army in postwar North America. Surely the colonists could help pay for that army and a few other expenses of administering Britain’s much enlarged American empire. Rather than request help from provincial legislatures, however, Britain decided to raise the necessary money by acts of Parliament. Two laws, the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765), began the conflict between London and America. The Sugar Act imposed duties on certain imports not, as in the past, to affect the course of trade—for example, by making it more expensive for colonists to import molasses from the non-British than from the British West Indies—but to raise a revenue in America “for defraying the expense of defending, protecting, and securing the same.” The Stamp Act levied entirely new excise taxes (like sales taxes) in America on pamphlets, almanacs, newspapers and...
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...British colonization on the Native Americans. 1600s The Native Americans had to fight to keep their land. Many were forced to leave their land because the British began building houses on the land. The British dominated the Native Americans. They spread diseases which the Native Americans did not have immunity for so they either left or died. 3) The evolution of the socio-political milieu during the colonial period, including Protestant Christianity’s impact on colonial social life. 1600-1700s After the Puritans lefts it attracted more people with different cultures and religions to America. The Protestant Reformation society saw itself as a whole that consisted of different pieces that worked together. Within this structure the Protestants saw individualism in religion. Religion impacted politics as well as socialization. 4) The effects of the Seven Years’ War. 1756-1763 William Pitt, the king’s new chief minister, viewed America as a place where England and Europe were to be fought for. In 1759 British forces sailed up river and attacked Quebec for three months and defeated the French forces. Montreal also surrendered to the British a year later ending the fighting in America. Eventually lead to the Revolutionary War and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. After the Treaty was signed, Britain had all of the French land in Canada except for two small islands (Overview of the Colonial Era, 2013). 5) The...
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...religion; all the taxes are what stirred the final emotions that started the war. The Sugar Act which “placed duties on foreign sugar and other luxuries “(p. 55) and also re-enforced the Navigation Acts that put a stop to smuggling of goods. The Quartering Act forced Americans to supply food and lodging for all the soldiers in the New World causing the Americans even greater expenses. And the Stamp Act “provided further revenue for the expense of troops, placed a levy on most printed papers” (p. 55) all three of the Acts played a major role in the starting of the Revolution, “Taxation without representation”. (p 57) As the colonies attempted to fight back against the new taxes with the Boston Massacre in 1770, and then again with the Boston Tea Party in 1773, they were meet with another act. The Coercive Acts of 1774, the British not only punished Boston by closing the harbor port, but also affected the other colonies because it strengthened the Quartering Act. Britain also passed the Quebec Act 1774 and these acts together were known to the Americans as “the intolerable acts”. (p. 63) The French–Indian War ends in 1763 and because the British defended the colonies they felt the colonies should payback most if not all the cost of their defense. This is why Parliament begun passing the new taxes. This caused a fury outbreak through the colonies. The Continental Congress debated how to handle these new taxes. The leaders of the colonies blamed Parliament but “still wished to...
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