American Revolution Dbq

America was first settled by the europeans, Spanish, and the french. They all settled for land and power, and battled for land in the North American continent, dividing the Continent into 3different territories. The europeans were the first to have bring slaves to the Americas. Europeans began to settle in the new world and gain dominance over the 13 original British colonies. These states were divided by the reason they were settled. New England- Connecticut, new Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island was settled for Religious freedom. The middle states- Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania and New jersey were settled for trade. The southern states -Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina was settled for farming,The French and Indian war pushed more division in the states because after the British had

protected its colonies from the french who were joined with the Native americans, the country was in war depth and needed money. As a result they pushed taxes on the colonist, which made them upset. As a result o the taxes the colonist wrote the declaration of independence listing the reason they didn’t want to be ruled by Britain, in hopes to split from Great Britain. The division began when some people were patriot or loyalist.

The loyalist supported great Britain, and the patriots wanted independence, and some just didn’t care. This made the country very divided and lead to the revolutionary war. In the end of the Revolutionary was the Colonist had won and formed the USA. The USA was governed by the Articles of confederation, it was very weak and ineffective and the government was not able to tax the people. This made division in the country because some people wanted a weak government and some wanted a strong one. In 1787 the delegates met and instead of tweaking the Articles they made a whole new constitution. They made the constitution, and they had to make a compromise because the people didn’t want a strong central government, so they added a bill of rights. To further divide the country due to politics the Great compromise and 3/5ths compromise had to be made to stop the division between the Small and big states. The small states didn’t want the slaves in the larger states to count because it would cause those states to have more representatives in the house, so they made slaves count as only

3/5ths. The Great compromise also a compromise that had to be made because of the conflict between large and small states, the small states were upset about the lack of population in the states and so they decided that only the house of representatives would be based off population, and that in the senate EVERY state would have 2 senators. The country continued to be divided, but now it was divided by the issue of slavery. It was divided by North vs South, the north didn’t want slaves and the South did. The Missouri Compromise was needed because the North didn’t want slaves and the South wanted it so they made the Missouri, which meant that there was a border 36 degrees north latitude (10 slaves 11free states). When the country began moving westward (Westward expansion) there was still between conflict between the North and South. The issue was based on if there should be slaves in the west. There was major major sectionalism, and it lead to the civil was that the North won because of there advances in industries,also 13th 14th and 15th amendments. I’m crow laws were use to manipulate these amendments. It took another 100 years for these amendment to actually go into works.