Declaration of war by the United States

The War of 1812 can be said to be the second war for independence since the Americans were fighting to establish their independent nature and state against the British. The British had previously not recognized the Americans independence, which set Americans on a quest to establish that they were an independent nation that had its own laws and one that could not be influenced or ruled by other nations. This second war of independence helped them establish their independence and sovereignty…

assent that slavery is bad and that we are not/will not do it again. Assent, in this case, means the expression of approval or agreement, which the agreement is the people of the United States giving their consent to something. Lastly, we assent to the constitution that the founding…

choose three changes which have been the biggest changes in the Unites States from 1783 to 1865. I feel like all of the topics, in which we talk about in class, are extremely important to the United States history. Just a few of the more complex changes that I came up with are: abolitionist movements, French and Native American War as well as women’s rights. All three of these topics made an extreme change in the United States that can still be seen in the present day. To start off, slavery was…

John Adams John Adams was born in 1735 and died at the age of 90. He was married to Abigail Smith and their son, Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States of America. He was a graduate of Harvard College and a prominent attorney in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the second president of the United States of America. Before becoming president, he had served as Vice-President under George Washington. John Adams was influential in stirring up the revolt against Britain rule in…

They speak of justice as the basis of political organization: in the Declaration of Independence states that “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the Consent of the Governed” (paragraph 2), and the Preamble lists, among the reasons for “ordain[ing] and establish[ing] this Constitution for the United States of America,” “to ... establish Justice.” The U.S. government would thus be held accountable not in just a practical way—via elections, whereby officials who…

After the Seven Years War, Americans were proud of being with the Britain when winning the war. They thought Britain would treat them like family and part of the British empire, but that didn’t happen. The war put Britain in more debt than before that they could not pay for and since they won more land, they need to protect these lands from Indians and other people who want the land. So to generate revenue British decided to make the colonists pay taxes on certain items since a lot of the…

The declaration of independence did not create the United States of America in 1776; it was created in 1787 by the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence created the articles of the Confederation which in the end, the Constitution replaced. This Declaration stated that the colonies were now independent and free in America, rather than shackled to the British Empire. With the thirteen colonies free from Britain and with the creation of the Articles of Confederation, these colonies became…

Throughout time the Declaration of Independence has been referenced to and modified to speak on equality and how the founding fathers laid the principles for all men being equal regardless of race, social standing, or amount of wealth even if they wrote the document in a completely different time period . Three major contributors to this were President Abraham Lincoln, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), and Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK). All three of these men used the Deceleration of…

financial situations confronted the British government and compelled the government to find new revenue sources. The debt came from a multitude of sources, including: “expenses it had incurred in defense of the colonies during the French and Indian War… the cost of the continuing protection that British forces were giving the colonists from Indian attacks and that the British navy was providing for colonial shipping”. As a result, the British government desperately needed to impose a higher…

1789, “the French revolutionaries issued their Declaration of the Rights of Man. It was only a matter of time before a woman published a “Declaration of the Rights of Woman.” (Perry 112) The Declaration of the Rights of Man would go on to include lines such as, “Men are born, and always continue, free, and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public utility.” (Paine 1) The feat of creating the Declaration of the Rights of Women “was accomplished…