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    There was not much talk of the american revolution in the book so i thought it would be nice to talk about it and dive in a bit deeper giving a more comprehensive look at the revolution. I am a history major with a specialty in american history and this is definitely where I feel like I could contribute the most as my love for history has brought me many places and of those places I have been to‚ United States history has been what I have been most intrigued by. Mainly the amount of culture that

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    Nick Cuccaro U.S History 1 Liberty! The American Revolution – Quiz October 9th‚ 2012 The American Revolution‚ also known as the Revolutionary War‚ was a war that had raged on for eight years stemming from major political differences of opinion. Though‚ the fighting and the discontent between the two opposing forces‚ Americans and British‚ had been developing for years before the first shots ever had gone off to start the revolution. The reasoning for the tension between the two is traced

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    To many historians alike‚ the dawn of the American Revolution all started after the boycott of British goods during the Townshend Acts. Everyday necessities‚ including paper‚ glass‚ tea‚ and paint‚ were all needlessly taxed. In respond to these hasty actions‚ the colonists‚ both Loyalists and Patriots alike‚ organized boycotts on such goods. Women were essential for these events‚ for they did most of the shopping. Later on‚ every Townshend Act‚ aside from the tax on tea‚ was repealed‚ which lead

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    the Russian Revolution began with the mutiny on the cruiser Aurora. Likewise‚ it is believed that the famous Boston Tea Party was the symbolic event that sparkled the American War of Independence. The conflict between the thirteen American Colonies and the Great Britain Government began long before the events in Boston. The Colonists believed that it was not fair that they did not have official representatives in the British Parliament while the colonies were burdened with the increasing number of

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    Analyze how actions taken by BOTH American Indians and European colonists shaped those relationships in each of the following regions: New England ‚ Chesapeake ‚ Spanish ‚ New France. Confine your answer to the 1600s. English : * Mass Bay viewed the Indians as inferior and believed that because of this they were obligated to take the land * In the Plymouth colony the pilgrims and the natives started off great (first thanksgiving) Squanto was a big reason for their harmony‚ however mass

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    The American revolution is considered one of the greatest triumph in America rich and proud history. That american colonist were standing up to the tyrannical reign of the british empire for Freedom. But that right to freedom exclude the slaves who were the ones who truly deserved freedom in all aspects. What the colonist wanted was an economic freedom since they felt that the british didn’t have the right to govern taxes on the 13 colonies and even if they did want personable freedom it never would

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    What Really Caused the Revolution? Historians have argued about the many possibilities of why the American Revolution occurred. The reason for this is that the main cause of the revolution caused other supposedly “causes of the revolution”. The most basic simplest cause of the American Revolution is merely the fact that distance weakens authority; greater distance weakens authority even more greatly. Separation from the “child” nation (Thirteen Colonies) from its mother country (Great Britain)

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    the charters jurisdiction so they created a temporary gov. like agreement called the Mayflower Compact which in a way was like an attempt to break from the mother country and sort of make their own identity. They colonist started to develop a sense of their identity and unity as Americans as the revolution neared because of British imposed stuff. Along with that each section of colonies‚ south‚ middle‚ and north‚ all developed

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    When the Euro-Americans started to settle America they forced the Native Americans to adapt their culture and religion. The settlers were very serious about their Christian religion. They thought it was the one true faith and all people should believe in it. Euro-Americans actually feared the Native Americans because they felt that Native Americans were evil because they didn’t have a religion. What the Euro-Americans didn’t understand was that the Native Americans did have a religion and their own

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    something for ourselves. When the colonists separated from British rule‚ it is evident that the ideas they were attempting to escape ended up following them as they began settling into their new society. European ethnocentrism created an immense amount of hardships for the colonists as it was so deeply ingrained that it made it extremely difficult for American self-rule to become feasible. Between 1600 and 1678‚ it became evident that there was disagreement between the colonists on a number of topics including

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