The American Revolution aimed for freedom, but racial inequalities still posed challenges. While it brought ideas of fairness, racial problems still needed fixing. From the start of the Revolution, there were conflicts between wanting equality and keeping racial bias. Black people faced hurdles like slavery and limited rights, but the Revolution also sparked movements fighting to end slavery. It laid the groundwork for future fights for fairness that would gain more traction over time. The Revolution resulted in challenging racial stratification, slavery, and the rights of Native Americans. As a result of the war, early in the 1770’s, freedom petitions were presented to New England courts trying to end slavery. Subsequently, Vermont was the first state to outlaw slavery in 1777, followed by Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. As discussed by Foner in Voices of Freedom, “between 1777 and 1804, every state north of Maryland took steps toward emancipation. Unfortunately, slavery remained deeply entrenched in the southern states because the size of the plantations required massive work to maintain, keeping them profitable, especially the cotton plantations. After the war, the Treaty of Paris demanded that British troops leave runaway slaves behind, but the British military freed them instead. On the other hand, it had negative repercussions on Native Americans, who lost the majority of their land up to the Mississippi River for westward expansion. The Northwest Ordinance passed in 1787, was a step toward black freedom, which prohibited …show more content…
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Revolutions are usually described as “radical” events. A “radical” event is defined as one that greatly changes the political, cultural, social, and/or economic nature of a society. I believe that the American Revolution was a radical event that dramatically changed our society. There were many impacts to the changes such as slavery, primogeniture, the Articles of Confederation, republican motherhood, and government. This was the time in life, that we as America gained our independence from Britain. The American Revolution is what shaped our world to become what it is today.
There were many battles that took place during the American Revolution. In 1777 the British invaded Canada in order to link up with British forces in New York City. Their main mission was to stop the American Revolution. They were led by General John Burgoyne, who planned to move southward to Albany and continuing down to New York. Crossing the Hudson River General Burgoyne knew he would have a burdensome journey ahead of him. The movement was extremely difficult because of the dense forest. As a cavalryman, he understood the importance of artillery, but on the other hand, fifty-two cannon and large baggage were taking a toll on the troops. The British had knowledge of American troops in the area during their movement, but continued to advance forward. I believe General Burgoyne should have conducted a recon before moving into an unknown area.
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The American Revolution was worth the wage of are independence. Which was fought between the American colonies and the British. Which ended with a massive amount of war and deaths. In addition to that a lot of political ideas happen. Not to mention revolts and military forces that was trained and assembled at this time to fight for freedom and independence around the world. The American Revolution had multiple amounts of political, diplomatic, and military reasons for why the U.S, won the war. As well as the intolerable act, The Treaty of Paris, and Marquis De La Fayette ideas which impact the war as well as Georgia Washington.
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In the late 1700’s, some American colonies were beginning to resist British rule . The American Revolution was fought in the 13 British colonies in North America for the right to be independent. Leading up to the Revolution, the colonists had been mistreated by the British. They had been taxed without a say in Parliament and were in general treated as inferior to the British. Many of the acts that British rulers passed, such as the Quartering act, made the colonists feel as though they were not being treated as actual englishmen and instead as people who were below the British. The American revolution was caused by the mistreatment of the colonies, taxation without the consent of the colonists and lack of representation in the British government.