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    Inevitable Freedom The United States of America could have easily lost the Revolutionary War‚ along with colonists not constructing the Constitution‚ but also Colonial Representatives established as a self-governing entity within the British Empire. Amongst all odds‚ the Colonists managed to pull off their fight for independence from the world’s most notorious empire and military in the world at that time. If the British were to maintain consistency of their politics and policies‚ could the outcome

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    wars had different effects on lives of the black people‚ these effects built up to become the defensive mechanism for freedom of the African Americans. During the Revolutionary War the majority of black people were slaves‚ and free men were denied citizenship and equal right‚ while being used for manual labor. The victory in the Revolutionary War needed more soldiers for both sides‚

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    glamour of ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Revolutionary Road’‚ there is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and emptiness” How far does this illuminate your reading of ‘The Great Gatsby’? In Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Yates’s ‘Revolutionary Road’ it could be argued that there is more than just an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and emptiness. There is a lot of evidence in both novels that reflects the negative perception of women‚ the artificiality of certain characters and the pursuit of happiness

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    The Role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War An estimated 100‚000 African Americans escaped‚ died or were killed during the American Revolution(Mount). Roughly 95% of African Americans in the United States were slaves‚ and because of their status‚ the use of them during the revolution was inevitable(Mount). This led many Americans‚ especially those from the North‚ to believe that the South’s economy would collapse without slavery due to the use of slaves on the front lines. However‚

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    muskets walk out and block the entrance. The regulars start to tell them to turn around and go back home. They started to turn around and then someone fires a shot and a British soldier drops. That was what you would see on the first day in the revolutionary war. In this paper‚ I will show you why the Colonies were a serious underdog‚ what a surprise attack was‚ and finally what the turning point in the war was. They were an underdog and it definitely showed. The first thing that stuck out about the

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    DBQ’s – Questions and Answers Document 1 Why did Whately (and probably most other English officials) feel that the American colonists should be willing to pay higher taxes to Parliament? Whately felt that American Colonists should contribute to the preservation of the advantages they have received. Document 2 According to Dickinson‚ what taxes was Parliament justified in imposing on the colonies? According to Dickinson‚ Parliament was justified in imposing the Stamp Act on the colonies. Why

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    The year is 1775. The British are at war with the colonies‚ and unfortunately‚ for the colonies‚ a neutral observer in such a time would have picked the British for the win hands down due to their immense military strength‚ the colonies’ lack of metallic wealth‚ and the geographic fragmentation of the colonies. For years Britain had been known to have one of the mightiest military powers in the world. This sentiment was only furthered by their 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada and again by their

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    Deborah Samson was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man and served for over a year in the revolutionary war. I think it was very brave of her to do that knowing how much trouble she could have got in. In Deborah Samson’s child and teenage years were rough because she lived in poverty. It didn’t make anything any better when her father left on a expedition

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    History 2061 October 7‚ 2012 The Participation of African American in the Revolutionary War The Declaration of Independence embodied the dogma of those American colonists who were in favor of the American Revolution (1775-1783). Written by the Continental Congress‚ this document boldly endorsed and demanded “certain unalienable Rights”. Among these rights were “Life‚ Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”‚ which the Continental Congress considered to be explicitly necessary for “all men”. Based

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    they obtained during the Seven Years War. These policies included the Sugar Act‚ Quartering Act‚ Stamp Act‚ Townsend Act‚ Tea Act‚ and the Intolerable Acts. Because of these new rules‚ many Colonists were angered which resulted as the start the Revolutionary War. Salutary Neglect is an unofficial policy of avoiding strict regulation. This was meant to keep the Colonists loyal to Britain. Robert Walpole‚ Prime Minister of England at that time‚ declared‚ “if no restrictions were placed on the colonies

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