(Pole, 132) Yet, by the time the Revolutionary War was done, America had a new identity and new egalitarian values. ... (Pole, 132) Equality had begun, however inadvertently, in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. Pole states that during the time of the Revolutionary War, it would have been foolish to believe that any event, no matter how significant or momentous, would have foreseen "the proclamation of the ideal of natural rights equality as the general principle of the American people. ... This was brought about by such historical events as the Revolutionary War; just as this idea is co...

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After the Revolutionary War, the Articles of Confederation formed the federal government of the United States. ... Throughout the revolutionary period, the rights of many changed very little. ... They gained no more freedoms due to the Revolutionary War. ... The letter exhibits the unchanging mindset of ruling men before and after the war. ... The American Revolutionary period was revolutionary for only a small portion of Americans. ...

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These conflicts were numerous and had different triggers and different outcomes, usually not in favor of the Native Americans, a few of many examples of wars between the two groups include The Jamestown Massacre in 1622, the Pequot War in 1637, and the Anglo-Powhatan Wars in 1610, 1622, and again in 1644. ... This conflict as well as other social and political conflicts led to the American Revolutionary War which lasted from 1775 to 1783. ... The most ideal example of this is the Civil War. ... If the Indian Wars did not happen, America wouldn't exist as we know it today. ... If the Civil...

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The Revolution changed the social rank of race and gender in America. African Americans, Native Americans, and women during the American Revolution experience a small amount of equality. There was an erosion of class differentiation because of the new ideals that the Revolution supported. Egalita...

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This want for new territory, would cause boundary issues and fears to arise soon after the Revolutionary War with the fledgling government of the United States. ... Not long after the Revolutionary War, the government of the United States began to want to expand into territories that were occupied by European and Native American peoples. ... Joseph Ellis, a Thomas Jefferson historian, stated, "For Jefferson, more than any other major figure in the revolutionary generation, the West was America's future. ... One of the reasons that the War of 1812 with Britain happened was fear of other co...

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Past expansionism was driven by the events occurring directly after the Revolutionary War, in the late 1700s, which included the acquisition of new lands that lead to a migration of Americans guided by motivations of profit, land, and religion. ...

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They worried that the Federalists' ultimate goal was to centralize power in the national government and involve the United States in the European war on the side of Britain. ... Jefferson's presidency was revolutionary in which he completely reformed the economy of the United States. ...

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Some of these tribes held war captives as slaves both before and after the arrival of the Europeans. ... Her husband was killed during a war with the Muskogees and she fell in, took his place, and finished out the war with his weapon. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. ... The majority of these violent Indian wars occurred in the southern United States. ... Shortly after the Civil War in 1866, a treaty was signed that granted citizenship rights to the Freedmen. ...

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