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    Revolutionary War Causes

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    The revolutionary war followed by several causes. These causes are the Indian policy and the Pontiac war‚ the Sugar Act‚ Currency Act‚ Stamp Act‚ Townshend revenue act‚ Tea Act‚ and the coercive act. Those causes were forced on the colonies by the Britain. However‚ the Continental Congress tried to help to the colonies‚ by resistance to the acts and defining American rights. In 1763‚ Britain let to its troop’s army to stay in the area of North America. In that area‚ colonies were living‚ and the

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    In this time period America faced a lot with the wars. Some of our states were being targeted by British Soldiers in the war. In 1780 the patriots from America tried to push the British soldiers out of our country. The American soldiers were to tired and hungry to fight anymore. Most of the soldiers tried to escape‚ but couldn’t. According to General Nathanael Greene‚ he had never witnessed such scenes before in his life. General Greene was very discouraged when he arrived to the scene. America finally

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    in the 1760’s and 1770’s that led to the Revolutionary war. During these years the British did many things that upset the colonists. These upset colonists would eventually get sick of all the British ways and fight for their freedom. Many events crucial the Revolutionary War took place in the 1760’s‚ such as the Sugar Act‚ Stamp Act‚ and Declaratory Act. The Sugar Act of 1764 set an import tax on foreign sugar‚ molasses‚ and rum entering Britain’s American colonies. Colonial merchants‚ ship owners

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    Persuasive Writing Were the American colonists justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain? Assignment: 1763 marked the end of the French and Indian War‚ the final defeat of the French and their Native American allies in America. For America’s English colonists‚ this was a cause for great celebration and pride in the their English identity. But only twelve years later‚ these same American colonists found themselves locked in a bitter and violent conflict with the mother country that

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    Opium is the world’s most addictive component that is able to affect a person’s life positively and negatively. The opium comes from a poppy plant which can be transformed into medication that people can use as painkillers or as a drug that can be highly abused to hit euphoria. Hospitals and militaries use opium in a form called morphine which is used to treat severe pain. In order to fight effectively during battles‚ opium was consumed in order to withstand a great amount of pain and if a solider

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    less than apocalyptic; it seemed like an end. It’s not‚ the war was not the end but the beginning of everything. World War I‚ which lasted from 1914 to 1918‚ was one of the greatest wars and the first modern war in the world. This world war I became the gateway to new things. From the political‚ social and economic fields. This war not only inflicts tremendous damage but also costs a lot and affects the world order afterwards. World War I brought down the four greatest empires in Europe without a

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    In the revolutionary war slaves and their masters played an important role‚ which led towards the abolishment of slavery. After years‚ full of tension between the United States and Britain tensions erupted in the war of independence in 1775‚ which would last till 1783 (Conway‚1). “African Americans fought a revolution within a revolution‚” as Nash writes (266). This means that while the Americans had their revolution‚ slaves had their own for their freedom. The change is shown by the number of articles

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    World War I sparked a multitude of significant short and long term political changes throughout Europe. In the immediate aftermath of the war‚ territory was reallocated‚ four empires fell‚ and the League of Nations was created. The creation of the League of Nations‚ despite its eventual failure‚ demonstrated a major shift in international politics from the desire to expand and conquer to the recognition of the importance of the balance of power. The Treaty of Versailles also divided Austria-Hungary

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    Loyalists and the Revolutionary War Around the time of the mid-late 1700 ’s‚ people in the United States (then the Thirteen Colonies) who supported Great Britain were called Loyalists. The Loyalists respected the king ’s authority and were opposed to the American Revolution. They were for the most part happy with the king‚ as the rebellion had been fueled by (the patriot ’s) general discontent with British rule (Allen xv). The Loyalists also had a chance to defeat the Patriots in the war‚ because they

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    Revolutionary War Causes

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    the Revolutionary War was separation between Britain and the American Colonies. The two grew apart with a small bond that kept the colonies loyal to Britain‚ (The History of The United States‚ 1904). Most people believe that taxation and unfair laws was the cause of the war. The main cause that really angered the Americans was Britain’s attempt at taking guns from the colonist. On April 1775‚ the Americans starting shooting against the British when the British tried to disarm the Americans as a

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