For the wealthy, white men of the American colonies, the American Revolutionary Period was a time in which many aspects of culture, politics, and society were transformed. ... During the drafting of the constitution, a large propertyless mass was excluded from participation as noted by Charles Beard in An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. ... These same masculine systems that were in place during the British rule continued to dominate with no hint at reform after the countrys restructuring. ... The American Revolutionary period was revolutionary for only a small...

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During the early period of the American Revolution, the British and Colonial Armies were forced to adopt two different approaches to attempt victory because of variations in foreign affairs. ... The Battle of Saratoga turned around the international view on the American Revolution and consequently the tides of the war. ... Foreign perspective of the American Revolution was changed at the Battle of Saratoga. ... Foreign intervention kept the American fight alive, the French keeping the budding American government together by lending it money that was paramount in keeping the Revolution alive...

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This great American country that we know and love today was not always the world super power that people understand the United States to be currently. ... It was through this demotion where Washington took advantage of this porous situation and made it a positive. ... These two fronts were held strong by colonists but it's the next attack the almost compromised the Revolution as a whole. ... The British were able to capture Brooklyn but through Washington's strategic excellence he preserved the Revolution for another day. ... During these time period it was rare that attacks were mad...

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Of the revolutions passed that day, five of the resolutions dealt specifically with the possibility of seizing whatever stores of warlike materiel were available. ... That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, two majors, and other officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken that no persons be appointed to offices or enlisted into such battalions but such are good seamen or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve with advantage b...

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