...Thesis: As a result of rising tensions between the thirteen colonies and Brittan, there are many conflicts over money, land, and independence. The French and Indian war had finally ended when the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763. The colonies had finally won the land that they fought so long for. Although the war was over and the colonists had their land, growing conflicts between the American colonies and England remained. The colonists felt as if they weren’t being treated as fairly as they should have been while England believed the American colonies were only created to bring in more money. The colonies will fight to get their independence and England will do whatever it takes to keep them under close rule. After the war, Great Britain...
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...was one of the most crucial events of history. The American Revolution (1775-83) is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict. After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1779, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783. For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies with the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773 caused great tension and resulted in a heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led...
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...no good outcome for the colonies from fighting and separating from England. Thomas Paine addressed these concerns by acknowledging the colonies’ capability of economic independence, explaining the ease of competing with the British Navy, highlighting the flaws in the English government, and assuring their likely beneficial relationships with foreign countries. Paine argued that the colonies would not have many issues in thriving economically without Britain. He brought to light the fact that America’s goal was commerce and the rest of Europe...
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...Great Britain controlled a vast area of thirteen American colonies along the United States. But over time, tensions grew between Americans and their British rulers. On the one hand, British troops provided protection from French settlers and American Indians who were threatening the colonies' borders. The colonists also had access the Britain's vast trade markets,so they could easily buy and sell supplies.but on the other hand,colonists wanted more control of their lives.they wanted to help make decisions about taxes and laws.Consequently, they wanted their local governments to have more power and not be subject to the laws of the British Parliament.But British rulers disagreed,they felt they had the right to run the colonies and to tell the local lawmaking legislatures what to do.After all,Great Britain had helped establish the colonies.It spent a lot of money to keep things running smoothly.Eventually,the colonists realized that if they wanted a say in government,they would have to declare their independence from Great Britain.That mean going to war with one of the most powerful countries in the world....
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...Paragraph 1: Tensions in the colonies of Great Britain were rising increasingly higher as time went on in the near mid-eighteenth century. Taxes on legal documents were placed directly on the colonists without representation in the Stamp Act, which resulted almost immediately in an outcry of protest and rebellion. The Stamp Act Congress was created to express the colonists grievances and Sons and Daughters of Liberty rose up in protests, continually pushing harder for independence from Great Britain. Protests grew rampant in many places throughout the colonies and one protest even led to the killing of five protesters after shots were fired into the crowd. These events led to the Boston Tea Party and the resulting Coercive Acts as punishment, further leading to the colonial alliance and the American colonies creating a separate and new identity in independence. While many colonial-American traditions and cultures stayed intact,...
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...raised his family. After Franklin retired from business in 1748, he embarked on a new career as a civil servant. He served in the Pennsylvania Assembly and became deputy postmaster-general. Sent to England as a representative of the Assembly, he spent five years there. During that time, he made the acquaintance of statesmen and scientists alike. Years later, he returned to England and found himself caught up in the growing tension between the thirteen colonies and the British government. Franklin’s loyalties were divided. He felt affinities to the colonies and to King George II of England. When he could tolerate the British government’s policies toward the American colonies no longer, he sailed back to the colonies. By the time his ship arrived, the first battles of the American Revolution had already been fought. Franklin was chosen to serve on the Second Continental Congress, which, acting as the government for the colonies, declared independence from Britain and appointed George Washington as commander in chief of the American army. Franklin was one of five men selected to draft the Declaration of Independence, the formal document proclaiming freedom from British rule. During the war, Franklin secured from...
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...severely punished Germany with reparations, Germans were humiliated, and their economy was in shambles. This led to the rise of Adolph Hitler, WWII, The Cold War, and much of the European history that has followed through cause and effect. Causes of the war were growing nationalism, imperialism, militarism and a system of alliances in Europe. Nationalism is the love of one’s country, but it allows individuals to believe they are better than others, so it makes it easier for them to go to war against each other. Before World War I, Europeans were very nationalistic. Imperialism is the domination of one country by another, and European countries established colonies and dominated other nations around the world for their natural resources and their markets. This was no different than the relationship between England and the American Colonies. England believed the colonies existed for the good of England. They thought it was their right to control colonial trade and tax the colonies. Imperialism put European countries in competition with each other for colonies around the world. Militarism is the policy where a country builds up its armed forces. They developed their navys to protect the sea routes to their different colonies. Clearly each country wanted a military equal to if not better to their completion. This led to the Arms race. The problem with having a strong military is the temptation to use it. The European countries began to form alliances for mutual protection, which over...
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...Jefferson by which thirteen colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence is the outcome of suppression of the British Government that started assault on the colonists’ political and economic rights and as well as the unnecessary taxation imposed on them. Thomas Jefferson was one of the American political leaders who was known for his authorship of the Declaration of Independence. Without Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, there would have been no revolution in the history of United States. The U.S war for independence took place between 1765 and 1783, and the thirteen American colonies rejected the British aristocracy. “The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s thirteen North American colonies and the colonial government” (Sadosky). Thomas Jefferson always believed that the colonies should be independent, they should not be suppressed and must be free. He did not use any books or journals to write the Declaration of Independence, rather he discussed with people. He collected the ideas from different peoples and linking those collected ideas, he wrote the declaration and there it is stated that everyone has the rights to life, and freedom. He is considered the founding Father of the United States as...
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...Part B The Revolutionary War is one of America’s most significant wars. The Revolutionary War officially began on April 19th, 1775. It ended on September 3rd, 1783 by the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783), which formally acknowledged the independence of the United States. Though the colonists were ungrateful for the help they received from Great Britain in the French and Indian war, had they never responded the way they did against King George’s power then, America would not be the independent country it is today that stands to protect people’s freedom and natural rights. More than ten years before the Revolutionary War began, tensions between the colonies and Great Britain were growing. King George III had been practicing salutary neglect...
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...the Native peoples, with the latter approach having become increasingly common in recent decades.[1] Indigenous peoples lived in what is now the United States for thousands of years and developed complex cultures before European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England, after 1600. The Spanish had early settlements in Florida and the Southwest, and the French along the Mississippi River and Gulf Coast. By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people along the Atlantic coast, east of the Appalachian Mountains. The colonies were prosperous and growing rapidly, and had developed their own autonomous political and legal systems. However, with the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, Great Britain altered its relationships with the colonies by imposing tighter administrative controls and greater financial obligations on the colonists.[2] Tensions grew, eventually leading to armed conflict beginning in April 1775. On July 4, 1776, the colonies declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. With large-scale military and financial support from France and military leadership by General George Washington, the American rebels won the Revolutionary War and peace was achieved in 1783. During and after the war, the 13 states were united under a weak federal government established by the Articles of Confederation. When these proved unworkable, a new Constitution was adopted in 1789; it became the basis of the United States federal government...
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...but in that year, domestic uprisings plagued much of continental Europe. Given Britain’s geographical isolation and the success of its early colonies (like Australia), it experienced general domestic and foreign tranquility, as well as economic success and worldwide naval supremacy. However, as the British Empire continued to expand, its domestic industrial infrastructure was almost altogether abandoned, causing its inevitable technological obsolescence by the last quarter of the century. The relative decline of British industry and global dominance began in the 1870s along with a shift in gross national investment from domestic markets to overseas, requiring British foreign policy to ensure the naval, military, and financial security of its empire through defensive build-up and diplomacy at the turn of the 20th Century; in response to Britain’s relatively weaker position, German policy became more aggressive in an effort to assert Germany’s new global power status and attract Great Britain to an Anglo-German alliance. Britain’s escape from the revolutionary fervor engulfing continental Europe in 1848 allowed them to focus their interest on economic expansion by colonizing unclaimed lands across the globe. During the economic hardship that precipitated the 1848 uprisings, British tranquility was achieved “at the expense of its colonies,” whose resources (like Australia’s gold) were used to help maintain the empires economic, and therefore domestic, stability....
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...century. Prosperity and growing population tied the English colonies to London and the flow of goods between Britain and America fueled the desires for acceptance by the British elite. They wanted America to be more like London with their wealth and overflowing production of goods. The Great Awakening was a huge religious revival in colonial America striking first in the Middle colonies and New England in the 1740’s and then spreading to the southern colonies. The Great Awakening affected everyone. Whitefield, an Anglican minister came to the colonies and revivals and mass conversions often followed his appearance. Crowds gathered to listen to his sermons and many converted and despaired salvation. Disputes between individuals and more extreme revivals split individuals into two separate churches, New Lights and Old Lights. These Revivals created tension between these two groups. However, The Great Awakening not only brought religious revival between groups it also fostered greater political awareness and participation among colonist. Chapter 5 As the war was drawing to a close conflict between the Cherokee Indians on the southern frontier flared into violence. The Cherokees loss of Virginia and the Carolinas to the colonist created problems, as the British Amherst reduced gifts to the Native Americans and the Indians struck in a second war on British forts eventually ending due to starvation in 1766. Colonist no longer wanted friendship between the Indians and as far as...
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...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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...Throughout the nineteenth century the industrial revolution, which brought about manufacturing shift from small, independent shops to large factories, changed the economies of Europe. It also reshaped European politics and diplomacy. The new factories that sprang up across Europe required stable sources of raw materials and secure markets to which the manufactured goods could be sold. These needs led to the economic control of foreign lands by counties such as Britain. For much of the nineteenth century, Britain was the undisputed ruler of the high seas and controlled a colonial empire that covered one quarter of the earth’s land mass. By the latter part of the century, however, Britain’s naval and economic dominance faced a stiff challenge from efficient German factories, and German goods began to outsell British goods....
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...upon the merciless rule of England and its unjust treatment of the 13 colonies, to imprison America’s founders is not only groundless, but unlawful. The men being held captive, George Washington, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Hancock; are American, therefore free from punishment of crimes that occurred on American soil. The charges against these revolutionists are without proper evidence and support. It is a travesty in the name of justice to misinterpret the intensions of these men without first acknowledging the possibility of their innocence in collaboration with the causes and events leading up to the initial incarceration. This was not a revolution of desperate lower class minorities with nothing to lose. The people behind the revolution were wealthy, educated, opinionated politicians; all of whom, in agreement of the fact that there was no other option rather than to risk everything for the freedom they rightfully deserved. George...
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