King George committed many injustices against the American colonists such as his tendency to tax the colonies punitively without any type of actual representation (The Declaration of Independence); his consent to the policy of Salutary Neglect; and then his dissolution of state assemblies every time he perceived the colonies to be wrong, (The Declaration of Independence) and finally his allowance of British soldiers to quarter themselves in any colonists house, no matter if it was war or peacetime. ... King George III's actions in time of war and peace have been well documented by the fra...

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This "journal" that Cresswell made was about his journeys through the American colonies. ... The whole idea of mercantilism was about to be crushed, due to this idea of self-independence with respect to colonial economics. ... The Declaration of Independence, which was adopted by The Continental Congress of July 4, 1776, was a strong justification for revolution. The Revolution follows the Declaration of Independence, where a transition occurs which has to do with the rights of the colonists. ... Throughout the Revolutionary War the were some main causes that ignited it, the Stamp Act, th...

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He did so by writing a pamphlet, Common Sense, that stated, in simple terms, numerous reasons for independence. ... Adams eventually signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and served in Congress afterwards until 1781. ... Having written the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Jefferson became one of the most historic figures in American history. ... After the Seven Years War, the British found themselves in debt about 140 million pounds, half of which was incurred by defending the colonies. ... As a result of the Intolerable Acts, the First Continental Congress was formed, and fro...

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Although the colonies of British North America, on July 4 1776 felt strongly enough about the incompetence of British rule, to declare themselves independent of such rule, and fight a war to demonstrate such sentiment, the resulting state created from their revolutionary endeavours, and indeed, the revolution itself, seemed a mere step away, politically, from that of the state they were rebelling against. ... We can see references to this inequality in both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. ... Later in the pamphlet Paine makes the argument for independence from Britian by acknowled...

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Throughout their on-going communication the Adams write about their family, concerns with the status of the war and its outcome, but most importantly political views of the time and specifically the critical issue of equality that Mrs. ... Abigail Adams begins her appeal by stating "in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for your to make I desire you Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors" (Shi 149), she takes this approach even further by utilizing the same concept of voice and representation that the male colonist u...

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On October 5, the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, a good document all right, but only if it were followed. ... It was the wrong way to go about creating a free society. ... Now contrast all of this with the American Revolution, more correctly called the War for Independence. ...

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The dictionary definition for the American Revolution is; "the war between Great Britain and its American colonies, 1775-83, by which the colonies won their independence." ... The colonists believed that their natural rights as "English men" were being violated, and they wanted to do something about it. ... These rights are our natural rights as American citizens today, as the declaration of independence states. ... After the war there were many different opinions about the way the colonies would be governed, some (non-federalists) believed that every American colony should have their own g...

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He writes evenhandedly about the British generals Howe, Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne, and Charles Cornwallis. ... " By the end of the book, however, it is also clear how much chance played its role in the quest for American independence. ... Nonetheless, some critics have found 1776 light on analysis and narrow in scope, and others have criticized McCullough for giving the Declaration of Independence and its framers short shrift. ...

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