The American Revolution was an important event in American history that established American independence. After the American victory in the revolutionary war, people gained a lot of this victory, especially white males because they can be represented in their country, they do not have to pay a lot of taxes, and gained much more freedom. For African Americans, Native Americans, and Women, they did not gain much as a result of the American victory, but the group that had it the worst is the Native Americans. There are three important reasons that the Native Americans got the worst gain out the American revolution, one of is that that the Natives were completely ignored in the talk about the Northwest Ordinance. The Northwest Ordinance was
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The Native Americans had to escape the war by fleeing the war territories where they don’t feel the threat of their lands being taken and to be safe from the war. The third reason is that when the ended and the talk for a peace treaty begun, there was no Native American to represent them or any mention about the Natives. After the war that America won, a peace treaty called Treaty of Paris which officially ended the Revolutionary war. In the treaty, there was no talk at all about the lands that the Natives had the right to live in. Americans were just taking lands to the west from the British without concern about the large amounts of Natives who live there. They completely ignored that the Natives were also involved in the war for both sides, so they should have been represented in the treaty, but the Americans did not care about who’s land this is, they only cared about expanding their own country. The Natives did not gain anything from the war but lost almost everything they had. Most of Native Americans lost their homelands during and after the war, they had to find a place far west to live at and call it home. At least the African Americans gained freedom in the north and women received some rights, but the Natives just
The Native Americans had to escape the war by fleeing the war territories where they don’t feel the threat of their lands being taken and to be safe from the war. The third reason is that when the ended and the talk for a peace treaty begun, there was no Native American to represent them or any mention about the Natives. After the war that America won, a peace treaty called Treaty of Paris which officially ended the Revolutionary war. In the treaty, there was no talk at all about the lands that the Natives had the right to live in. Americans were just taking lands to the west from the British without concern about the large amounts of Natives who live there. They completely ignored that the Natives were also involved in the war for both sides, so they should have been represented in the treaty, but the Americans did not care about who’s land this is, they only cared about expanding their own country. The Natives did not gain anything from the war but lost almost everything they had. Most of Native Americans lost their homelands during and after the war, they had to find a place far west to live at and call it home. At least the African Americans gained freedom in the north and women received some rights, but the Natives just