Emma Lucas Mr. Stiver Women of the Revolutionary War 19 December 2012 Everyone who has studied the history of the United States of America has heard of Paul Revere‚ George Washington‚ and Benedict Arnold‚ but who has heard of Molly Pitcher‚ Sybil Luddington‚ or Eliza Lucas? Was it not Abigail Adams who told her husband John Adams to‚ "Remember the ladies"? And James Otis‚ brother of Mercy Otis Warren‚ another mother‚ said‚ "Are not women born as free as men? Would it not be infamous to assert
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vil warCivil war -The civil war was the bloodiest war the united states History‚ it claimed more lives than the American Revolutionary war‚ World War I‚ World War ii‚ the war of 1812 and all the other American wars put together. From the Beginning of the war in 1838‚ to the time it ended in 1845‚ more than 900 million soldiers were killed. - The war started as the result of a dispute the north and the south had‚ because certain southern states and certain northern states regarding slavery and taxation
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the country headed towards a Civil War‚ a great question materialized with it. Almost 200 years ago‚ the United States counted themselves‚ revealing that only about 10% of the whole black population were free. However‚ were they really free? Were blacks that weren’t enslaved unrestrained and unimpeded? Comparing the free blacks in the North to the whites‚ free blacks were not actually free. They were not permitted political privileges‚ had only some social rights‚ and were still restricted in economics
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attitudes were seen towards the topic of slavery because of the Revolutionary War‚ especially in the North. It inspired a spirit of liberty and an appreciation of the work of the work of all black soldiers (slaves). Some of the Northern legislatures adopted laws during the late 1700s that provided for the end of slavery immediately or gradually. The census of 1790 revealed that the nation had about 59‚000 free blacks and this included 27‚000 from the North. After the Revolutionary War‚ a lot of the
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threaten to the established liberties that Americans enjoyed. The greatest threat to liberty was depicted as corruption. The colonists associated it with luxury and‚ especially‚ inherited aristocracy‚ which they condemned. The beginning to the Revolutionary War was after Washington forced the British out of Boston in spring‚ 1776; neither the British nor the Loyalists controlled any significant areas. “It is matter of too great notoriety to need any proofs that the arrival of his Majesty’s troops in
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How could America rebuild itself after the civil war? Post civil war‚ America was bruised and bloodied from the warring factions. Ultimately the Union won‚ but how would it incorporate the defeated South back into the Union? The best strategy that the Northern government could collectively pass was the Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan focused on punishing the south by helping freedmen and establishing their (limited) rights‚ preventing confederate soldiers from voting‚ and having almost
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Have you ever wondered what it was like during the events that lead up to the Revolutionary War? So many events occurred during this period in time. Some of these events were the Navigation Acts of 1660‚ the French and Indian War: 1754-1763‚ Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763‚ the Sugar Act: 1764‚ the Stamp Act: 1765‚ the Declaratory Act: 1766‚ the Townsend Act: 1767‚ the Boston Massacre: 1770‚ the Boston Tea Party: 1773‚ and last but not least the Intolerable Acts: 1774. All of these events
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The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories‚ seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation‚ the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the
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By the end of the French and Indian War Great Britain’s national debt had grown exponentially. As a result‚ Parliament began to press the issue of mercantilism (taxation) in order to compensate for the budget deficit. According to America: A Narrative History Brief Ninth Edition‚ the average Briton paid twenty-six times the median yearly taxes paid by Americans‚ so Parliament reasoned that they should share the greater portion of the cost of the British troops providing their defense. Many Americans
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The deadliest war in American history may have saved the Union but it left both the North and South in shambles. Towns were charred to ashes‚ railroads were twisted to coils‚ and a Southern economy was on the verge of collapse. On top of it all a whole group of people were given freedom and placed into a society alien to them. Perhaps the biggest battle America had to fight came after the Civil War: reconstruction. Many in the US government believed they had the best plan to rebuild the country
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