American Revolution DBQ

The American Revolution was one of the most important revolutions in the world, but there is evidence that says that nothing really happened from it. I believe that the American Revolution was not revolutionary because not all people were equally free, and all the changes actually happened in the Americas occurred when the British first colonized America. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson states, “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal…”. Looking at the Colonies after the Revolution says anything but that. A letter from Abigail Adams to her husband about how the men should remember the women and their freedoms when writing the Declaration of Independence(Document 3) shows that women did
Abandoning the owning of land, religious intolerance, and giving the estate to the oldest born son took place when the British colonized the Americas(Document 2). Many colonies took years before abolishing slavery, with the exception of a few in New England(Document 6). To this day racism is an active factor in society and whites and minorities are still treated unequally. The Republican government that the Americans built after the revolution included the poor and minorities and made everyone equal(Document 7), yet the rich were still rich, the poor were still poor, and minorities had no power. Blacks were still frowned upon, Indians were irrelevant, and women at this time could not vote. The American colonies went from a group of wealthy tyrants to another group of wealthy tyrants so when it comes to who had the power, that certainly did not change either(Document 8). The wealthy people in society did not even have to serve in the army because they could avoid the draft, but the poor did not have that luxury. For decades after the revolution, things in the Colonies stayed the same. The status of the people in the colonies had not changed, and neither had the rights and restrictions of those
Sadly however, they weren’t and very few things changed. More things ended up staying the same than being different in the slightest way according to the pieces of evidence given. Documents 3 and 5 give plenty of evidence of the racial and gender-related injustices, while documents 2, 6, and 8 show the stagnation of the American way after the revolution . Women were virtually unrecognized in the Declaration of Independence. Blacks, who stopped becoming slaves in 1865, had to wait 90 long years after the Revolution to be free men, and even then racism was still running rampant in the colonies for decades to come after. The difference in class didn’t change, and the people in power didn’t change because it went from British aristocrats to Colonial aristocrats. The poor, Indians, blacks, and women all were lacking rights that were guaranteed to them in the Declaration of Independence, since all men are created equal, but it took a very long time to actually happen. There, the American Revolution cannot be the reason it happened because the actual important changes in the colonies took place dozens of decades later. The American Revolution was not revolutionary because of the lack of significant historical events that took place directly following