Category: American Revolution

Rationale: This topic was chosen because the revolutionary war is often blamed on the creation and implementation of the sugar act. The sugar act caused mass protests against the crown when it was levied on the colonists. The tax was added in response to the French Indian War. It was added on top of many…

Introduction The French revolution might have only lasted a decade 1789-1899. However, its impact was unfathomable. It could be argued that it was the single seed that grew into a modern democracy. It questioned how the old world was governed by challenging the feudal system of France, the power of the church, and the monarchy…

Women proved to be the most heroic and prominent people throughout the most oppressive times in America during the Pre-Columbian era to 1650, the Era of the American Revolution and the New Republic 1750 to 1800, and the period leading to the American Civil War 1800 to 1860. The Native womens power and hard work…

Introductory: The American revolution is a revolution done by the British settlers in America after Europe exploring America. This revolution aimed for gaining independency in order to be a new independent country in America without controls from the mother nation Britain. The Causes Of The American Revolution: Restrictions: Britain the mother nation forced the British…

The relationship ties between America and the British Empire should have been strengthened after bounteous years of French and Indian war. However, the bond between the two countries was strained by a series of laws enacted by the British to regain their financial prosperity and political control over the colonies. Steadily, American settlers realized the…

In chapter 3 of Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography it looks at the USA with its glorious isolated location between two oceans, exceptional river systems and development agriculture all of which led as a country with a shared language through culture to their relatively stable progress. When comparing the analyses of US foreign policy contained…

The definition of American freedom as described by Eric Foner was born in revolution (Foner, 2012). Freedom has been a recurring theme for the United States, reaching its pinnacle during the American Revolution, where the meaning of the word had transformed and had different meanings. There are many concepts of freedom to different people, and…

During the 18th and 19th centuries, certain nations and colonies located in the Atlantic desired to upheave the current governmental and pecuniary mandate of the administrations in control, they wanted to institute a fresh direction, founded on the philosophies of the Enlightenment – exclusively pursuing to establish order that desired to create government based on…

One spark can set a forest ablaze. One knocked-over domino piece can cause the rest in the row to fall. One royal couples succession of the throne of England in 1688 and their reign helped influence Americans desire for rights, liberty, and self-governance. These ideas and principles that emerged from the Glorious Revolution had a…

Irving Kristol was known as the godfather of neoconservatism due to his influential repercussion in the intellectual and political culture of the last half of the twentieth century, as well as his contributions as an author and editor. Irving Kristol, in his brilliant analysis of the American Revolution, The Most Successful Revolution, provides a thorough…