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    For military actions‚ see American Revolutionary War. For other uses‚ see American Revolution (disambiguation). In this article‚ inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies who supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" or "Patriots‚" and sometimes as "Whigs‚" "Rebels" or "Revolutionaries." Colonists who supported the British side are called "Loyalists" or "Tories". In accordance with the policy of this encyclopedia‚ this article uses American English terminology; in British

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    American Literature

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    Edwin Arlington Robinson- father/mother/ 2 brothers died. Love of life married brother. Never Married. Wanted to be poet since age 11 and chose to live in poverty. Wrote traditional poems. Old-fashioned but deals with modern problems. Philosophy: Behind “the peaceful and genteel communities of small-town America” lies a substrata of failure‚ “loneliness‚ and terror.” Conflict with light and dark with the individual. Major Works; The Children of the Night‚ The Man Against the Sky‚ and The Man Who

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    The American Revolution

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    Although many think of the American Revolution as a conflict between the righteous colonists and the villainous British‚ the situation in the colonies escalated by the fault of both parties. Americans acquired much wealth during the period of salutary neglect from 1713 to 1763‚ but the British had accumulated a massive national debt during the Seven Years’ War at the end of this period. In order to reduce the national debt‚ Britain began taxing the prosperous Americans. Thus began the first of three

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    Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Essential Questions Jack Clark Period 4-5 1) At what point did revolution become inevitable? Explain with details. Revolution in colonial America became inevitable right after the conclusion of the French Indian War. Although victorious‚ this 7 year endeavor was extremely costly for Great Britain. Parliament needed to think of something quickly to fund the English war debts. Naturally‚ they decided to increase taxes on the colonies. It was these taxes (Stamp Act

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    life was simpler when women were kept pregnant in the winter and barefoot in the summer. But if you think about it‚ American women have always worked whether in the kitchen‚ on the farm‚ or later in the factory and in the office. However‚ women today feel bombarded with alternatives‚ with choices that must be made. The role of the American working woman has changed drastically since the beginning of the century because of certain factors causing an increase in the number of women in the workforce‚ because

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    Writing Assignment 3 America had a goal after the American Revolution‚ and that goal was that the United States would inevitable expand all the way west‚ to the Pacific. Through out 1790-1850‚ Westward expansion was the main goal of most presidents who fell in this time period. The country grew geographical from “Manifest Destiny”‚ socially & culturally from the increase of immigration‚ and economically from cotton in the south. Even though there were tons of problems that arouse from these

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    African Americans in the American Revolution Leading into the American Revolution‚ African Americans were placed in a dilemma of whether to rebel or remain faithful to the crown. There were two sides of the American Revolution; the Patriots (also known as the rebels)‚ were the Americans that wanted to gain their independence from Great Britain. The Loyalist was the people who wanted to stay under the control of Great Britain. Some African Americans joined the Loyalist because they were promised

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    Indians were removed to the Rocky Mountains‚ ’extirpated from the earth‚’ or allowed to remain in the United States. Indians as Indians could not be tolerated in the republican civilization the American Revolution had created. The new nation must have a ’homogeneous’ population.” After the American Revolution‚ the newly formed United States of America refocused their attention from deciding on what kind of society they wanted‚ to how they were going to get this society. Thomas Jefferson was the mastermind

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    The American Literature

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    Vasilev English Philology 4th year/100304104 Part II - American Literature Topics: 2‚44‚55 SECTION ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION Among the most celebrated and enigmatic twentieth-century American writers‚ I choose J.D. Salinger as my main author because is best known for his first and only published novel The Catcher in the Rye‚ as well as for him being a short story master‚ a defining portrait of adolescent in postwar American society. The novel’s disaffected hero‚ Holden Caulfield‚ continues

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    American Revolution The American Revolution is a war to reckon with and was actually a significant event in the history of American and basically‚ if there was no revolutionary war the United States of America may not have been in existence. The American Revolution brought an end to the two centuries of British rule for most of the North American colonies and brought the modern U.S.A. The American Revolution was all about people that got tired of the stress of paying for big government and that

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