Evolution of America
Some people believe that the American Independence was more of a revolution than an evolution I’m here to tell you why it’s actually an evolution. The reason it is an evolution is because there are multiple events that lead up to American Independence. In a revolution we have a big turning point that makes it into a revolution, which is not what happened. Our three main topics that prove that American Independence is an evolution are Common Sense, The Magna Carta, and the Thirty Year War. All of them are great examples of why it’s an evolution. All three of these helped British Americans to want to break Britain’s reign on them.
Thomas Paine’s article called common sense proposed independence from Britain. He called the king a fraud and a parasite he declared government should be chosen by the people. The article Thomas Paine wrote about the people’s true feelings towards the King of Britain. “In Common Sense, many Americans read what they longed to believe but had not known how to express” (US history book pg.111). This explains that the people had always wanted to believe that the government was cruel and a hoax but never knew how to express it. This article played a key factor in America’s independence it was also one of the major events that led up to the American Revolution. …show more content…
The Magna Carta promoted the idea of giving the king less power and reducing the amount of taxing on the nobles. “The Magna Carta protected English nobles by limiting the king’s ability to tax them and by guaranteeing due process, or the right to a trial” (US History book pg.72). With the Magna Carta in act English nobles were protect from tax this gave off that the idea of having a constitution would be a good thing, another thing it inspired was the idea of self-rule. The Magna Carta was another event that led up to the American
Some people believe that the American Independence was more of a revolution than an evolution I’m here to tell you why it’s actually an evolution. The reason it is an evolution is because there are multiple events that lead up to American Independence. In a revolution we have a big turning point that makes it into a revolution, which is not what happened. Our three main topics that prove that American Independence is an evolution are Common Sense, The Magna Carta, and the Thirty Year War. All of them are great examples of why it’s an evolution. All three of these helped British Americans to want to break Britain’s reign on them.
Thomas Paine’s article called common sense proposed independence from Britain. He called the king a fraud and a parasite he declared government should be chosen by the people. The article Thomas Paine wrote about the people’s true feelings towards the King of Britain. “In Common Sense, many Americans read what they longed to believe but had not known how to express” (US history book pg.111). This explains that the people had always wanted to believe that the government was cruel and a hoax but never knew how to express it. This article played a key factor in America’s independence it was also one of the major events that led up to the American Revolution. …show more content…
The Magna Carta promoted the idea of giving the king less power and reducing the amount of taxing on the nobles. “The Magna Carta protected English nobles by limiting the king’s ability to tax them and by guaranteeing due process, or the right to a trial” (US History book pg.72). With the Magna Carta in act English nobles were protect from tax this gave off that the idea of having a constitution would be a good thing, another thing it inspired was the idea of self-rule. The Magna Carta was another event that led up to the American