The American Revolution was as a result of the colonists questioning the intrusion by Great Britain into their progress. It erupted into armed conflict in the year 1775. The political upheaval that occurred in the thirteen colonies lead to the formation of the United States of America after the British were overthrown. The armed conflict ended in 1783 but the young American nation had a bigger task to set up a government. Independence was the beginning of America’s’ problems as the country faced
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the United States. This creation not only functioned as a system of labor‚ but also as a system for regulating the relations between the races. The North and South profited greatly at the expense of shackled and separated families‚ up until the early 1800’s as the idea of slavery became a topic to be repeatedly examined. Slavery was not only a practice of owning a person‚ but controlling and ruling over every action that they take in order to benefit at their expense. These black men‚ women‚ and
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During the 1800’s US and other colonies from Europe wanted Latin America to become a source of materials‚ and to become a market for goods. The US and Europe nations started to build mines‚ railroads‚ and bridges. The US and other nations began working together while both using the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine is an principle of the US policy‚ but then the governments of Latin America started to think that the US was going to use the Monroe Doctrine to defeat all of Western Hemisphere
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resulted in an unofficial naval war between the years of 1798 and 1800. h) Also resulted in the Alien and Sedition Acts‚ which targeted French and Irish immigrants and made the naturalization period longer‚ the president was allowed to export any immigrant deemed dangerous to the public‚ and also limited freedom of the press. i) The Treaty of Morfontaine restored normal relations between the U.S. and France and was signed in 1800‚ after Talleyrand sought to end the unofficial naval dispute without
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By the late 1800s‚ countries in Europe had already started imperializing places around the world; such as many countries in Africa. America‚ now industrialized‚ decided that they were strong enough to do it as well. America had already achieved Manifest Destiny and they were ready to expand outward. It had gained its own expansionism and it was going to change the country forever. The competition for power and land would be one that America did not want to lose and it impacted the country in many
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In the 1800’s there were major negative and positive changes to the U.S. The negative changes that were sweaping the nations was population and transportation. the negative changes that were changing the U.S. was harsh working conditions in industrial cities during the industrial revolution‚ and diseases that spread through the cities. There are two positive changes that happened in the U.S. the first positive change was for population. During the 1800’s urban population grew in total from about
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The Indutrial revolution (bbc youtube documentary) until The Indutrial revolution most people lived an agriculture existance defined by the harvest and the seasons and ruled by a small political and social elite. Sea cult- from north sea coal kick started The Industrial revolution in Britain. Until then wood had been the main source of energy in britain ‚ it supplied the fuel for homes and small industries ‚ but as populaion grew so did the demand for timber‚ as forest were cut down ‚wood had
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Marriage arrangements of the 1800s “were not just a joining of a man and women‚ but a joining of families‚ businesses‚ jobs and wealth” (Stephanie Ann‚ “Mid-1800s/ Civil War Era Marriage Proposals”). Most marriages were arranged by the head of the family‚ the father‚ and agreements were made between the groom and the bride’s father. During this time‚ The Married Women’s Property Act had not come about therefore it was mandatory that property‚ money and dowry of women shall go to the man when a marriage
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citizenship rights promised by the French Revolution. As the revolt spread‚ enslaved Africans rose up against their French masters. During the uprising there was cruelty from both sides. Sugar cane fields and plantation houses were burned and captives were raped and murdered. People of African ancestry outnumbered Europeans on the island by about 10 to 1. In 1794‚the National Assembly of France abolished slavery in its colonies‚ and in January‚ 1800‚ Toussaint L’Ouverture‚ the leading general
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The Irish emigrated from Ireland to America at two separate times‚ during the 1700’s and again in the 1800’s. During the 1700’s the Irish that emigrated were the Ulster Irish‚ these were mostly Protestant and mostly from the northern part of Ireland. This group of Irish was originally from Scotland which was under English rule. In 1533 when Henry VIII separated from the Catholic Church‚ he enacted penal laws - laws directed against Catholics. Catholic owned land was seized and given to the English
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