Revolutionary War Dbq Analysis

The information stated in the ten documents after the Revolutionary war really do tell us whether it really was a revolution. I believe that the Revolutionary war was not really a revolution at all. In the Declaration of Independence it stated that all men are created equal but that was not true at all. African Americans were still being held slaves in some states until 1865 and that means that those people were considered property and that is not equal to other people. In document 6 a young African American in 1819 was was in New York school and he said that if he were a mechanic no white man would work with him and he stated that if he were a merchant nobody would have him in their office. This is after the war and this African American

For many, after the dreadful seven years’ war all thought it could only get better. Britain sustained a massive debt leaving them in a hole so deep you could not see light. Britain had sought to acquire all nessary funds to help lessen the debt as much as possible, leaving the people angered, especially people from the colonies. Britain began to impose an abundance of unsanctioned taxes on them. The American colonist were infuriated with such actions, arguing that they it was not consulted. In accordance to all these events many had took it up themselves to express their opinion with action.

At the beginning of the war, the British was way stronger than the Americans and had more opportunities to win with its affluence resources and advanced technologies. United Kingdom was the most powerful empire at the time with its advanced industry development and navy force. They just took over the east of Mississippi river as well as Canada from France. There were about 30,000 British army soldiers based in Canada in supervision of the North America.

The Revolutionary war was not revolutionary. However, the colonist made adjustments to their old form of government and political structure. For example, document 5 showed a map of all there states and any involvement with slavery (abolishment etc.). The amount of slavery in the colonies increase because, the colonies population grew. However, the amount of slavery in the colonies had gradually been growing ever since their usage became so vital.

During the Revolutionary War the idea of being American came about. The United States population was split with people both support and disapproving of the Revolution against the British. Whigs and Tories were two groups of people with views differing from one another. Whigs supported the revolution while the Tories supported the British. There were many disagreements and conflicts between the Whigs and Tories (Doc B).

The French and Indian war, fought from 1754 to 1763, negatively altered political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American Colonies. Most of these issues can be connected to the large influx of land in North America, nearly everything to the East of the Mississippi River ( as seen in the maps of North America in 1754 and 1763 found in Document A), conquered by Britain and the Colonies by the end of the war. With the colonies rapidly increasing in size, it became more and more difficult for Britain to control them an entire ocean away. North American began to take on a life of its own as in became increasingly apparent to both sides that they had conflicting goals. Further complications ensued with Britain’s attempts to properly

Following the independence from Great Britain, the United States government decided create a written document that would function as the “guidelines” for America’s government. This first written form of the government was called the Articles of Confederation. However, the Articles of Confederation, had many weaknesses within it. First of all, the most serious problem, was that there was no national unity. The states primarily wanted to function independently, pursuing their own goals and interests, rather than the nation as a whole. Secondly, the next weakness of the Articles of Confederation, was that they borrowed loads of money to fight in the Revolutionary War. This meant that they were largely in debt. They borrowed money from foreign countries, and then later had

From one perspective war has always been the same, technology may improve or philosophies may change, but wars are started by those in power and fought by the poor. The results now may be somewhat different from 1775, post-Revolutionary war time with rebellions like Shay’s Rebellion, but the various reasons for the poor to join the military have stayed relatively the same.

The British fought the French in the French and Indian War from 1754 to 1763. The Colonists aided the British and in return the were “guaranteed” compensation. Instead, The colonists were repaid by unfair taxing or no representation in British Parliament. Between 1763 and 1776 the Colonists had slowly started to get fed up with unjust ruling from the British, and therefore, were justified in waging war with the British due to lack of political justice and economic restrictions.

Once the United States declared independence from Britain in 1776, they immediately started to create a government. Tomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was the first ever pamphlet to advocate American independence. It started many ideas that began the Revolution. In 1777, Congress submitted the Articles of Confederation which is the nation’s first constitution even though it was ratified a few years later. Congress could not handle the country’s economic affairs under the Articles because most state currencies were useless due to the wartime inflations. They even tried to print and use their own Continental dollars so they could keep the economy alive but that had also failed.

Although the Revolution period between the years of 1776 - 1783 had established the unity of the States to become the United States, an extremely important matter had not been dealt with by the people. In 1861, this matter was addressed in a devastating battle that lasted for over four years. This war became known as the largest and highly destructive battle between the years of 1815 and 1914. A battle that would either determine if the nation was to be based upon an independent government or a dissoluble confederation. A government that needed to determine if all men were created with an equal right to liberty. On the day of April 12th 1861, a divided nation known as the Confederacy (the South) declared the secession from the United States.

The revolutionary war was 'revolutionary' in the fact that is was a radical and unique struggle, which resulted in the transformation of America into a unified country, which was not afraid to express or act on their shockingly new way of living. They became the first country to enact a new democratic government, they unified diverse and opposing colonies, and spoke freely of their rights, as they were people who had the ability to strike back at those who threatened their liberty. In essence, this 'revolutionary' country was new, outspoken, and confident in what they wanted.

The year is 1787, and the American Revolution is over, insofar as the war with the British was concerned. However, America’s political revolution, and the question of what America should become was yet to be answered. At the time the States were operating under The Articles of Confederation which gave supreme power to the individual States, as opposed to a strong central Federal government. The Articles had served their needed purpose in the lead up to and the duration of the Revolutionary War against the British, but were woefully inadequate as a guiding document for the new United States. The Articles of Confederation had no provisions for the Federal government to collect taxes or regulate state commerce. The Federal government

The Revolutionary War was a huge moment in history. This had the colonists separate from British control. It was huge for the colonists to break away from British control.

An important problem with the Articles of Confederation were with money. The United States owed millions of dollars in result of borrowing money during the Revolution, and had no way to pay off their debts. Although Congress could ask states for money, they could not force them to contribute. Even though the states had made paper money, each state had a different kind of money. For example, Rhode Island used dollars,