Women in the American Revolution

Introduction During the American Revolution and in the years leading up to the war, thousands of colonists in the royal colonies fought back against the injustice of Great Britain, this eventually led to the fight for independence. From the beginning of the war the colonists looked at the French for assistance and the French did secretly help the colonists by sending hundreds of thousands of guns, ammos, and clothing for the soldiers. Initially, the French didn’t want to intervene in the war…

on tea to encourage many Americans to buy it. This act was also issued to avoid Americans to disobey the law, but some Americans still smuggled a large portion of Dutch tea into England, even with the tax reduced. Due to the smuggling, Lord North gave the East India Company, permission to sell tea directly to some merchants in certain colonial cities, cutting out the British middlemen. As the news reached the colonies, many people thought it was a trap for the Americans to buy more taxed tea,…

up to the American Revolution?” The American Revolutionary War began on the 19th of April 1775 and ended on the 3rd of September 1783. The main cause of the revolution was the dissatisfaction the colonists had with British rule, mostly due to the taxation without representation. Many events are considered main factors in the lead up to the revolution such as the implementation of the Sugar Act (1764) and The Boston Massacre (1770), but the event that was the turning point of the American…

Inaccurate Label: Era of “Good” Feelings The Era of Good Feelings was described as the political period of time in history after the brutal War of 1812. The United States had represented national purpose and unity. This led to a soar of American patriotism. However, this was later ended by several social, economic, and political problems that had gradually altered the meaning of the phrase “Era of Good Feelings.” The Era of Good Feelings’ was an incorrect label to suitably describe the period…

The Effect of Sectionalism on the United States Sectionalism has been present in American culture since its colonization by Great Britain after 1607. Early sectionalism began between the first settlers and the Native Americans and this divide continues today. Later, divides between groups of settlers as well as political and moral differences created even more sectionalism. These divides lead to industrial and intellectual developments that help to advance society. The most common example…

Traditionally, the depiction of our American forefathers regards them as individuals who were relentless concerned with structuring a solid platform of laws rooted upon coordinated logic and practical ideals. However, Jack Rakove’s theory says otherwise. He retaliates his position through series of elaborated material and reasoning to support his thesis. In Jack Rakove’s article “‘The Great Compromise’: Drafting the American Constitution” he elaborates on the notion of the well-regarded…

The leading conflict of the start of the Revolution is the end of the French and Indian war when the tensions were high. At the end of the war when Britain came to the top the war concluded. At the very end of the war Britain was in big debt. They had to find a way to get out of it. So the started to tax the colonists big time. Britain started to put tax on everything to gain money to get out of debt. The colonists were fighting back against the taxes. They put a tax on tea which lead to the…

From Resistance to Revolution, by Pauline Maier is an analysis of the ideological evolution of American radicals from 1765 to 1776. Maier primarily focuses her study on those who were leaders in opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 leading up to independence from Britain, and how their instruction over protestors were very much in line with real Whig thought of the 17th and 18th century. She claims that with this knowledge of previous exposure to the rules and tradition of English…

Freedom… Independence… Red,white, and blue. Can you guess what day it is? That’s right, you guessed it,it’s the Fourth of July. It’s the day we remember what a marvelous country we live in. The day the whole house smells amazing. The day we wear red, white, and blue to show how much we love our country. The day everyone's jolly with their families, celebrating our freedom and liberty. Well for me it was the day that i'll never forget, but not in the way you think. It was the best feeling waking…

John Keegan and Peter Arnade record the accounts of the Battle of Agincourt and the Army of Flanders press against the Low Countries during the Dutch Revolt, respectively, in Keegan’s Agincourt and Arnade’s Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots. In fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe, military conflicts ranging between the English and the Spanish to the Spanish versus the general population of the Low Countries were governed by the emotions of the persons that participated. Understanding…