The American Revolution was a result of the colonists unrest caused by their abhorrence towards their British Mother Country. For several centuries the colonies had been subject to rule by the English Crown and it’s Parliament. They no longer wanted to be controlled by a country an ocean away, and in turn sought independence. A huge factor in the start of the American Revolution was the French and Indian War that changed the age-old bond between the colonies and England. Decades of conflict followed, starting with the revolt as a result of the Stamp Act in 1765, leading to the eruption of war in 1775.
Within the following paper I will portray the story of these two documents and discuss the effect it has on America today. The history of this story begins with years of hostility over who would rightfully claim North America. France, Spain and Britain all expressed their interest in calling this land their own. After many years of war a treaty was reached ultimately awarding Britain the land east of the Mississippi. For over fifty years England faced hostilities around the world and now it finally found it self at peace.
University of Phoenix Material Causes and Outcomes of the Revolution Part 1: Causes Complete the grid by describing each pre-war event and explaining how it contributed to the Revolutionary War. |Pre-War Event |Description |Contribution to the Revolutionary War | | |The French and Indian War involved Austria, England, France, Great Britain, |The cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt. The war also generated | |French and Indian War|Prussia, and Sweden. Also called the Seven Years War. Was considered the |substantial resentment towards the colonists among English leaders, who were not | | |beginning of open hostilities between Great Britain and the colonies.
Though there were many wars in America between European powers during the 18thcentury, none were as influential or important as the French and Indian war. This conflict started in America, unlike the other wars, and the result was felt long after the Treaty of Paris. Many ideas of the Revolution were rooted in the French and Indian war. The British are cast into a new light when Americans see them in battle, and the war leaves Britain in dire conditions. They do not help themselves by angering the colonists even more with their decisions post war.
After years of boycotting and peaceful protest the American colonists could no longer stand the abuse from Great Britain and decided that they had had enough. The obvious winners of the revolution were the colonists, who
16 September 2012 Relationships between American Indians and European Colonists During the race for land in the 1600s, Europeans quickly moved onto American property, but usually, American Indians occupied that land. At first Europeans would sometimes become allies with the Indians as an aid to survive, but when the Europeans gained enough support and became more land-hungry, they would kick the Indians out of the property. As Europeans moved into the American colonies, actions by both the American Indians and European colonists, overall, negatively affected their relationship. This is clear in examining the relationships between the Native Americans and Europeans in New England and the Chesapeake area. In 1620, the first permanent English settlement came to New England in Massachusetts near Plymouth Rock.
Gaining more land was only one of the many things that made the American colonies overjoyed. After 1763, when the French and Indian War had just ended; the French, who was a threat to the American colonies and Britain was gone. The French had given up all its land claims in the major North American continent, giving everything east of the Mississippi to Britain and its colonies and everything west of the Mississippi River to Spain (Document A). While both the American colonies and Great Britain celebrated on gaining more land and winning the French and Indian War, the Native Americans on the other side of the Appalachian Mountain were deeply angered. Back in 1742; Canassatego, a chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy expresses his anger to the representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, “Your People daily settle on these Lands, and spoil our Hunting.
The American people rebelled against the British in 1776; this rebellion was prompted by quite a number of events. The writer would analyse the factors which led to the rebellion in this paper. Some of the factors that will be provide the backbone of this paper are parliamentary taxation, the legacy of colonial religions and political ideas, British military measures and restrictions of civil liberties. It is important to note that even though stated the causes are intertwined as with many historical events because some events take place simultaneously and are therefore inextricable although the writer will hereafter discuss them as though they are separate. The first factor is parliamentary taxation; this taxation was done by the British parliament which had no true colonial representation according to the colonialists.
There are certain aspects of this revolution that are traits of a civil war. Some traits of the American Revolution that qualified for a civil war for example they had different societies, they were in support of a different type of government, and it was a major dispute between these groups which belonged under the english empire, and considered themselves Englishmen. However other aspects regard this conflict as just a dispute between two different countries. Overall it is more accurate to call it a civil war, however other aspects make it a dispute between to separate countries. Since the colonies were part of the British empire, you can classify it as a civil war because part of a nation was succeeding from the empire.
While Great Britain emerged a victor of the Seven Years war, it was nearly bankrupt at its completion in 1763. This led the British government to raise revenues throughout its empire in order to reset its forces. Ironically, while Great Britain was attempting to prepare for the next war against its European neighbors, it was creating the conditions for an unforeseen conflict with the