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The Boston Tea Party and an Evaluation of its Significance

Alfred F. Young's contention that the tea party was the most revolutionary act of that historical decade is presented in this pape...

Early American Working People and Soldiers

In eight pages Revolutionary War soldiers such as Joseph Plumb Martin are examined along with working men and women which include ...

America's Enlightenment and Pre Revolutionary War Periods

thought as Puritans came to America. Prior to the Revolution such ideals come through in writings by infamous Americans. For examp...

Was America's War for Independence a Legitimate Revolution?

2001). In other words, in essence it is tantamount to a rebellion. However, germane to the American Revolution and whether or n...

Early American and Equality

In five pages this paper examines pre Revolutionary War America in terms of the concept of the equality ideology and how it was in...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,' Its Inaccuracies, and the Real Paul Revere

slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

Factors Leading to the Revolutionary War

make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...

Post American Revolution Minority Creditors' Oppression

After the British left the shores of America, the young country was faced with how to keep their economy afloat. Credit became one...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

Jews in PA

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

Revolutionary War Caused by Mercantilism

the task becomes difficult. The only way that countries could survive economically was to encourage colonialism. Colonies provided...

Thomas Paine's Political Propaganda

he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...

US Slavery and the Impact of the Revolutionary War

that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...

5 Questions on the Revolutionary War Answered

country in regards to what direction the nation should take. "[C]onstitutional issues lay at the bottom of the dispute. Andrews, f...

Ben Franklin, America's Colonial Printer

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

American Revolution and How the Colonists Achieved Victory

of Guilford Courthouse took place on March 15, 1781 and some say that was the beginning of the end of what was known as the revolu...

America's Enlightenment

In five pages this paper considers America's Enlightenment era in a consideration of the Revolutionary War and such important thin...

Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn on the Revolutionary War

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

The Radicalization of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

In eight pages Wood's text is evaluated in terms of primary issues involving the radical nature of the Revolutionary War in terms ...

Revolutionary War and Propaganda Uses

In ten pages this paper discusses how in Canada propaganda was used for Hessian mercenary defections during the Revolutionary War....

Montclair, New Jersey History

This research paper consists of seven pages and presents a historical oveview of Montclair that starts with the precolonial time p...

American Revolution and the Whig and Tory Political Parties

joining new political parties (CARF, 1998). The patriots who were also known as Whigs, were not disloyal to the Crown, but ...

Revolutionary War Turning Point at the Battle of Saratoga

In five pages this paper discusses how French support was won as a result of this Revolutionary War conflict and also considers it...

America in the Eighteenth Century and Standing Army Support

In five pages this paper discusses the Revolutionary War and the problems associated with the controversial practice of developing...

Average Citizens and the Effects of the Revolutionary War

In five pages this paper discusses how the Revolutionary War affected average people's lives when it was being fought and thereaft...

Changes in the 20th Century

In six pages this paper discusses the 20th century in an overview of the wars that took place as well as various revolutionary soc...

Ride of Paul Revere

In five pages this research paper examines the Revolutionary War contributions of Paul Revere in a consideration of the inaccuraci...

Revolutionary War Responses

to be every expensive. The British authorities felt that the colonies should pay taxes that would help cover the cost of housing s...