The author makes it really clear that enormous cultural, social, and economic changes were occurring in the colonies dating from the French and Indian War. ... The most interesting section of the book was the discussion of the French-Indian War or the "Seven Years War" and how it lead Great Britain to place an army on the frontier and to impose certain taxes to pay its cost. ... In every chapter the author gives very good facts about each segment covered in the chapter, the book doesn't keep on talking about certain events for too long it just gives you the most important facts. The boo...

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"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." ... After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of King Charles II, England closed its grip on the colonies. ... On the eve of the revolutionary war the political situation in the American colonies was still fairly stable. ... The War of Independence was just that, a bid for independence. ... Though ther...

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War was not decided upon in a single day; the accumulated sequence of events led them to declare war. Eventually, the war between Britain and the colonists occurred in 1774. ... The French and Indian War increased Britain's national debt. ... Lastly, important decisions that were related to the colonists' lives were made without colonial representation in Parliament. ... Therefore, this war declaring independence definitely was justified....

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This event set the stage for a profound decision on Dunmore's part. ... He felt that if they continued to denounce the Proclamation, there would be no way to win the war. ... Several Southern states even approved the death penalty for recaptured slaves, but nothing could stop the Black contributions to the British war effort. General Washington wrote Colonel Henry Lee on December 20, 1775 saying that they had to use the slaves and arm them as quickly as possible in order to win the war. ... Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of slaves in American history,...

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These acts were English mercantilism's most important expression. ... Similarly in Latin America, want of free trade and manufacturing and relief from taxes were important causes of the independence movements. ... These economic grievances against Britain and Spain were important causes in both independence movements. The economic causes of the wars for independence are very similar. ... Instead, Britain tightened control over its colonies after the war. ...

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In 1776, in Philadelphia, while Tomas Jefferson was busy drafting the Deceleration of Independence, a far more important document was being drafted up. ... Congress was given the power to wage war, make treaties, send diplomats deal with foreign nations, settle criminal disputes at sea, maintain weights and coins, run the post office, make rules for the army and navy, and take loans. ... There was no federal army; instead the nation depended on the state militias for defense in the event of war. To keep unity, states were not allowed to negotiate peace, raise an army, wage war, make alliances,...

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Some of the most important events or compromises that influenced this course of action were the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, and the Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions. The people of the United States knew that it was important that no government - even our own government - could take away the rights that God had given them. ... These also stamped the notion of secession from the union as an option - an option that was exercised and led to the Civil War. ... The Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions all are importan...

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During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. ... During the Revolutionary War, England was not only alarmed by the colonists' insistence on trading with the enemy. The Americans were or were not justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain. ... Dickinson makes an important distinction between the rights of the colonies and the authority of the parliament. ... Altogether the Revolutionary War was bound to happen, if people wanted to be free bad enough they will be war to gain freedom if it is not resolved poli...

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James Otis The Revolutionary War brought out dynamic personalities of men, which have made freedom a reality for us. ... Such orations led to political unrest, often times inciting fellow patriots to seek war. ... Yet, his mid war selling out to the British, proverbially "bit him in the back."" ... Without question, the most overblown out of proportion event leading to the war, was that of the Boston Massacre. ... In the event of the 1770 massacre, the warfront effort was shaped socially, politically, and theoretically. ...

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It is important to note that at this time the idea of Independence from Britain was not a common one and there were strong feelings in America between British Loyalists and the Colonial revolutionists. ... Despite the Declaration there was still a lot of division among the American people, bought on by lack of funds and foods, the strain of the long war and complaints about the inefficiency of the Congress. ... This entire sequence of events led to the birth of the Nation we now know as the United States. Without such important documents as the Declaration of Independence, the Confederation ...

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After seven years of war between France and Grand Britain, grand Britain won but faced a huge war debt (140 million pounds) the ministry was determine to reform the empire: "Either the colonies would of their own accord furnish funds or parliament had to seize them. ... They are to many reasons of why they became so important for the independence of the United States from Grand Britain. ... Not only their politic knowledge nor the economic influence between their colonist help them to played an important role. But because they were always involved and participated on those event that make ...

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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. ... Some say the most important events in Jefferson's presidency were the addition of the lands west of the Mississippi River. ...

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Initially, Jefferson envisioned on obtaining the territory from Spain but events were altered and the U.S not only gaining a massive beneficial piece of land, but also gained the powerful Napoleon Bonaparte of France as a very beneficial ally. ... The drafting of the Declaration of Independence was the defining event in Thomas Jefferson's life. ... This document gave a renewed sense of purpose to the war that Americans had been fighting for over a year now. ... This document is one of the most important documents in American history dealing with the subject of "religious liberty&qu...

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Though the declaration also describes a "mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other," the very language of the 1776 document is important. ... It was the bills of rights that accompanied these documents that ensured the religious liberty that was so important to individuals at the time. ... Public opinion may have mostly leaned toward religious liberty, but the opinions of important men of politics greatly affected the course of action following the declaration of independence from Great Britain. ...

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Thomas Jefferson shows his most Important achievement, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, where Jefferson writes "We hold these truths to be self evidence: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" ( The Norton Anthology American Literature 715). ... Perhaps the lure of historical writing is to answer the mystery of what and why of great events, but it is not the job of historians to choose questions which have an effect on legal rights. ... The enslavem...

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Thomas Jefferson shows his most Important achievement, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, where Jefferson writes "We hold these truths to be self evidence: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" ( The Norton Anthology American Literature 715). ... Perhaps the lure of historical writing is to answer the mystery of what and why of great events, but it is not the job of historians to choose questions which have an effect on legal rights. ... The enslavem...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate