At the conclusion of the American Revolution, the country faced a very peculiar predicament in what to do with all the slaves. ... At the close of the American Revolution many slaves felt they too would be given their freedom. ... Emancipation in Northern states meant the furthest thing from equality between black and white Americans. ... At the close of the American Revolution, the new country of America faced a very strange predicament of how to incorporate all the black slaves into society. ... It has been a long hard road since the American Revolution, and the struggle for true equ...

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During the 1760's and 1770's, the British undermined the success of American colonists with high taxation and a strong military presence. ... The years following 1783, welcomed an America free of British rule and taxation - an isolated America with few enemies and vast natural resources. The Treaty of Paris entitled America to large new land masses as well as rivers and fresh water lakes. ... The next 50 years following the end of the war saw a myriad of American sentiment towards Native Indians. ... While many may argue that the American Revolution provided an opportunity for blacks...

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In Joyce Appleby's Inheriting the Revolution, she discusses the lives of Americans after the American Revolution is over and when their new lives begins. ... Appleby shows that Jefferson's beliefs are one of the main reasons for many of the changes in America post-American Revolution. ... Appleby discusses the slavery issue after the American Revolution and the issues with anti-slavery a lot in Inheriting the Revolution. ... New enterprises and jobs came about also after the American Revolution ended. ... In Inheriting the Revolution, Appleby gives a good introduction to the Ame...

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Growing opposition to slavery was impacted by the American Revolution, the growing body of information on real life slave experiences, the second great awakening, and the idea of Manifest Destiny. The American Revolution in 1776 greatly impacted people's opinions on slavery. Because of the revolution we have the Declaration of Independence, which states that all men are created equal. ... He made it clear to Americans that slavery is wrong. ... Americans were realizing the cruelness of slavery. ...

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It is important to note that the time that Cinque and his men arrived in America was years after the American Revolution, which was fought by the Americans against the British. The main goal of this revolution was to gain freedom, to have a free state. ... That is why people like James Covey(Morgan Freeman) and Taben(the guy who owned two banks) fought for the reinforcement of the ideology which so greatly inspired them during the american revolution. ... and let it be the last battle fought for the American revolution.? ... If civil war comes then it will be the last battle fought for t...

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By the fall of the American Revolution in 1790, twenty percent of all living in the thirteen colonies was of African descent and the West Indies blacks comprised seven eighths of the islands" population of 529,000 and only less than three percent of blacks were free at the time. ... A series of momentous revolutions had transformed the instituted practice. ... A third and latter revolution was one of a religious nature. ... Another fourth revolution altered the areas in which slaves lived and worked. ... The last and final revolution in the history of American bondage was a revolution in mo...

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Why America Allows slavery in the 21st century? ... After the declaration of independence when Thomas Jefferson stated that "All men are created equal", the slaves thought that they would gain also some freedom as a result of the American Revolution. ... Other US corporations don't even need to bring them to America. They go to poor countries in Central and South America looking for people who will set for lower wages than Americans. ... It is not only Americas fault. ...

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#2 There was no successful slave revolts, because the society was based on Euro-Americans. ... Slaves knew earlier freedom fighters such as Baukman Dutty, who started the Haitian Revolution. They learned from those people such as Toussaint L'Overture, a military genius who helped to win the Haitian Revolution. ... It was a fact of life that every American had experienced during this period. ... After Independence The Industrial Revolution in England, the invention of the cotton gin, the extension of slavery into the new territories, and the persistence of the slave trade into t...

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In America's history slavery and economics go hand in hand. ... The economic systems that dominated slavery reflected the transitions in Americas economic system. ... The primary purpose of mercantilism, an economic system that developed during the transition of America from colonies to states, was to unify and increase the power and financial wealth of a nation through strict government regulation of the national economy. According to Carl Abbott, in the years following the American Revolution, slavery, which had never been so prevalent or economically important in the North as in the ...

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The Civil War The American civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States. It the most memeriable war in American history, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. It was the only war fought on American soil by Americans, and for that reason we have always been fascinated with The Civil War. ... But by the 1830s the market revolution had tied Northeastern factories and Northwestern farms into a roughly unified, commercialized North. ... Secession, Lincoln argued, was revolution. ...

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How the American sense of self and the change thereof is reflected in the literary movements from 1682-1845 American civilization has undergone many changes over the past few centuries. ... One of the best ways of monitoring these changes is through American literature. ... This fairytale is a glance into the hearts and minds of Americans during the Revolution. America is changing so fast at this point in history. ... Americans were in awe of their new independence. ...

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How the American sense of self and the change thereof is reflected in the literary movements from 1682-1845 American civilization has undergone many changes over the past few centuries. ... One of the best ways of monitoring these changes is through American literature. ... This fairytale is a glance into the hearts and minds of Americans during the Revolution. America is changing so fast at this point in history. ... Americans were in awe of their new independence. ...

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American history, as we know it today, is made up of many different chapters. ... One of the dark chapters of American history is the period of slavery. ... At about the same time of the American Revolution, abolitionists started appearing around America. ... In 1833, Garrison became the president of the American Anti-slave society, and he insisted that slavery would be abolished only when the mass of white Americans experienced a revolution in their consciences. ... In conclusion, we see that these abolitionists, as well as many others, made great advances in the struggle to end slavery in Am...

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Failure to live by the statement, "All men are created equal," and honor the inalienable rights of people following the American Revolution, is not the main precursor that doomed the United States to a Civil War. ... Quarrels between the two parties continued, until eventually 11 states made a resolution, and finally disaffiliated from the United States in 1860-1861, and formed the Confederate States of America. ... However, it would still appear that the juxtaposition between the political preferences of the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists, is what ultimately led to the h...

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"At the root of all the war was the institution of slavery, which had been introduced into North America in early colonial times," says James F. ... In the Northern section of the United States of America slavery was banned, therefore they did not want the "evil sin" to move on to the west, where the new frontier was being built. ... When the Northern states gave up the last remnants of legal slavery, in the generation after the Revolution, their motives were a mix of morality, and ethics, there was also fear of a growing black population and the fact that the Revolutionary War had broken the...

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People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ... Most blacks in America were slaves on plantation-sized units in the seven states of the South. ... By the American Revolution, 20 percent of the overall population in the thirteen colonies was of African descent. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. ... The majority, but not all, of these African-Americans were slaves. ...

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Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America, greatly influenced our history. ... All throughout the letter, Banneker compares Jefferson's struggles with the British government to the African Americans' struggles with slavery. ... Banneker compares the tyrannical rule of the British government over America to the tyrannical rule of the white man over African American slaves. Since Britain no longer reigns over America, Banneker suggests that Jefferson and other slave owners "wean [themselves] from those narrow prejudices which [he has] imbibed with respe...

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The United States of America was founded as a country where "all men are created equal". ... The middle class represented almost 65% of the population of the North, until the start of the Industrial Revolution. ... Slavery was a pesky issue that was second to issues like manifest destiny, Native American problems, and foreign issues. ... This bill was ruled unconstitutional and was never passed but it had a lingering effect in Congress and on the American people. ...

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This movie takes place during the American Revolutionary War illustrating life during the colonial era. ... Spike Lee, the African American Hollywood director, dismissed Emmerich's film as "pure blatant Hollywood propaganda: a complete whitewashing of history." "When talking about the history of this great country, one can never forget that America was built upon the genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of African people and it is criminal to say otherwise" Lee added. ... "If I was going to make a film about the revolution I would have made a film about George Washing...

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Most importantly, the Constitution defined "We the people" as the free Americans and excluded the slaves and Indians. ... They did not receive the principle of the consent of the governed like all of the free citizens of America did. The views of the American Revolution on slavery lasted all the way to the writing of the Constitution and greatly impacted the founders. ...

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Did you know, America's bloodiest battle fought on American soil, was the Civil War? ... In the South their belief was African-Americans were property. ... They believed slavery was wrong and inhumane and African-Americans are just as human as everybody else. ... When the Civil War finally concluded, thousands of American soldiers died fighting for what they believed in. ... If it wasn't for the Civil War, social equality would never be as far along as it is today, and the industrial revolution may have never taken place. ...

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The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. ... After the American Revolution slavery died in the North, as it became more popular in the South. ... On February 4 delegates from all these states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they drafted a constitution for the Confederate States of America. ...

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All over the world the modern era is being born that leads to the industrial revolution. ... This canal would link the Atlantic Ocean to the middle of America. ... By 1830 America was producing half the world's cotton. ... Tubman was one of America's first civil right activists. ... Now, no Africans Americans is safe anywhere. ...

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Also due to the fact that Whitney grew up during the time period of the American Revolution, the need for tools and other equipment was very high. ... While he embarked on his trip he met the wife of the ever so important Nathanial Greene, who was an important war general of the American Revolution. ... Because the cotton gin made it so much more easier to remove the cotton from the seeds, the life of everyone in America would much more easier. ...

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Many questionable events happened in the making of the history of the United States of America. Whether these events, such as the relocation and treatment of Native Americans or the forced slavery of African Americans, were right or wrong, they played important roles in shaping today's most powerful country. During a time of revolution and independence, the leading men, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, and James Madison, all helped to influence a young country which stressed freedom and liberty for all. ... Some are quick to call America's founding fathers hypocrit...

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