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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On November 7th, 1775, Lord Dunmore made his fated proclamation; this utterance changed the course of the American Revolution for the African-American. ... The revolution had a great effect on the Negro community during this period. ... In 1783 Ezra Stiles surmised the fruitful impact of the American Revolution worldwide. ... The injustice done to African-American in the era of revolution was further magnified by Stiles virtuous allusion to the fight for "the liberties of the world itself." ... Haynes" political conversion has provided an appropriate African-American perspective of the Americ...

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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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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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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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This was important for slave owners" safety since slaves had revolted and run away to join the British during the Revolution. ... Northern delegates pushed to end slave trade congressionally because it contrasted Americas" republican ideals, as Luther of Maryland said "It is inconsistent with the principle of the revolution and dishonorable to the American character to have such a feature in the Constitution". ...

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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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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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He is best known for his revised assessments of three central chapters in the American experience: slavery, the coming of the Civil War, and Southern Reconstruction. ... Herbert Aptheker was an American historian and political activist. ... Aptheker examined slaves and their mentality toward bondage in American Negro Slave Revolts. Aptheker described slaves as active participants in the culture of revolution perpetuated by slave life. ... Elkins applied psychoanalytic models to an assumed group, without first evaluating the historical record to see if his various models successfully mapped on...

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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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The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... The seven states formed their new government, the Confederate States of America before electing Davis as president. ...

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The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... The seven states formed their new government, the Confederate States of America before electing Davis as president. ...

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The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... The seven states formed their new government, the Confederate States of America before electing Davis as president. ...

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Benjamin Banneker was an African American that invented many products and practices that we still employ today. ... Although these contributions were recorded, his name was not mentioned in the American History Books until later in life. ... He was fascinated with the rotations and revolutions of the heavens and was said to have spent countless night out in his orchard pondering the night skies until dawn. ... The fact that Benjamin Banneker was an African-American made this accomplishment even more noteworthy. ... There are so many things that have happened in the past that never found thei...

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They had to survive the "middle passage" and legions of cruelties and atrocities committed against them before they even faced the hardships of America. ... Enslaved African Americans developed a sense of racial identity. ... Yet through, storytelling, religion and music African Americans managed to preserve their culture. ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical traditions. ... During the decades following the American Revolution, however, Christianity was increasingly central to the slaves" cultura...

• Word Count: 2002
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