The American Revolution was also a mean of change as ended two centuries of British rule from 13 colonies and created the modern republic of United Stated of America. The main reason the colonies started rebelling against "mother England" was the taxation issue. The colonies debated England's legal power to tax them and, furthermore, did not wish to be taxed without representation. ... These two important instances of bloodshed seved to evoke the spirit of American patriotism all over the colonies. ... Slavery had changed Southern society so much that the North and the South no longer ...

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Under both the Articles of Confederation, which had united the colonies during the Revolution, and the Constitution which joined the new states after 1787, the national government didn't have authorities to end slavery in any of the states (Hodges 1997). ... Southern blacks were forced to work all day for no pay. ... Southern blacks were also considered as property. ... Southern blacks were not only allowed to learn to read but it was also against the law to teach a slave how to read. ...

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Because of the large slave population's relative immunity and the acquired immunity of the white colonists (the first infection of yellow fever either "kills you or makes you immune") yellow fever ceased to be a major concern to the colonies after several generations. ... Germain even barred Clinton from taking reinforcements from Cornwallis, stating that the southern colonies were the major priority. ...

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The Articles of Confederation was the first documentation of the beginning structure of the United States government, which held together the 13 colonies who had just fought in the Revolutionary War. ... The states could set their own tariffs on foreign imports, and they could set trade deals (Southern states with tobacco, etc.) with foreign nations. ...

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