Liberty for all, the idea of it is enough to rally the masses to fight to gain it. This idea was the whole basis behind the American Revolution, best put by Thomas Jefferson with “We hold these truths to be self-evident: 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.” While this idea seems simple enough to achieve, first the Americans would have to successfully defeat their Mother Country Great Britain, who was currently the strongest power across the globe, as well as provide a stable structure to unify the country and provide this liberty to all. This “liberty for all” message behind the American Revolution is truthfully
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However, American spy networks were capable of giving the Americans a heads up through the usage of Paul Revere, as well as others, midnight ride to warn and ready the colonial minuteman that the battle has begun. Shortly after this battle, news of the attacks in Massachusetts had spread to the rest of the colonies bringing into the fray on the side of the Americans to gain two more powerful tacticians with the likes of Benedict Arnold in Connecticut and Ethan Allen in Vermont. Shortly after this surprising victory by the colonists at Concord, Allen and Arnold would lead the Green Mountain Boys to successfully capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British on May 10th, as the Second Continental Congress had been meeting in Philadelphia to officially name a Commander in Chief of their army, George Washington, as well as to plan a unified way for them to successfully defeat and push the British out of the …show more content…
The new nation, which had successfully disrupted and transformed the traditional class system thus creating an entire newness of the nation, still held on to traditions that halted and/or destroyed the opportunities for others to reach such equality. With the new nation, white males had found themselves victorious; while blacks were still being used as slave, natives being massacred and their cultures destroyed, and women being treated as second class citizens, had proven that the nation wasn’t truthfully following its own ideology. However, while gender and race inequalities continued through after the Revolution, religion had been able to flourish as it had become a moral unifier to the Patriots "by turning colonial resistance into a righteous cause, and by crying the message to all ranks in all parts of the colonies, ministers did the work of secular radicalism and did it better." With American’s believing that their Revolution was done in God’s name, religion was able to flourish and grow creating a multitude of denominations, which led to the 2nd Great Awakening in 1790 beginning in the Americas. Even with this glorious spiritual awakening occurring following the American Revolution,
However, American spy networks were capable of giving the Americans a heads up through the usage of Paul Revere, as well as others, midnight ride to warn and ready the colonial minuteman that the battle has begun. Shortly after this battle, news of the attacks in Massachusetts had spread to the rest of the colonies bringing into the fray on the side of the Americans to gain two more powerful tacticians with the likes of Benedict Arnold in Connecticut and Ethan Allen in Vermont. Shortly after this surprising victory by the colonists at Concord, Allen and Arnold would lead the Green Mountain Boys to successfully capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British on May 10th, as the Second Continental Congress had been meeting in Philadelphia to officially name a Commander in Chief of their army, George Washington, as well as to plan a unified way for them to successfully defeat and push the British out of the …show more content…
The new nation, which had successfully disrupted and transformed the traditional class system thus creating an entire newness of the nation, still held on to traditions that halted and/or destroyed the opportunities for others to reach such equality. With the new nation, white males had found themselves victorious; while blacks were still being used as slave, natives being massacred and their cultures destroyed, and women being treated as second class citizens, had proven that the nation wasn’t truthfully following its own ideology. However, while gender and race inequalities continued through after the Revolution, religion had been able to flourish as it had become a moral unifier to the Patriots "by turning colonial resistance into a righteous cause, and by crying the message to all ranks in all parts of the colonies, ministers did the work of secular radicalism and did it better." With American’s believing that their Revolution was done in God’s name, religion was able to flourish and grow creating a multitude of denominations, which led to the 2nd Great Awakening in 1790 beginning in the Americas. Even with this glorious spiritual awakening occurring following the American Revolution,