Essays 31 - 60
Alfred F. Young's contention that the tea party was the most revolutionary act of that historical decade is presented in this pape...
After the British left the shores of America, the young country was faced with how to keep their economy afloat. Credit became one...
he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...
make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...
start a new land and women were respected in relationship to what they did do in those regards. They were an essential part of the...
for the daily running of a large army, was still more than a century in the future. Washington had only the "rudimentary elements"...
In eight pages Revolutionary War soldiers such as Joseph Plumb Martin are examined along with working men and women which include ...
thought as Puritans came to America. Prior to the Revolution such ideals come through in writings by infamous Americans. For examp...
In five pages this paper examines pre Revolutionary War America in terms of the concept of the equality ideology and how it was in...
land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...
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...
works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...
religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...
(Van Tyne, 1929). Those who remained loyal to the reign of George III were incapable of grasping the liberal concept of individua...
of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...
country in regards to what direction the nation should take. "[C]onstitutional issues lay at the bottom of the dispute. Andrews, f...
writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...
that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...
slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...
general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...
general theory of economics in the modern era" (Carson, 2005). Unfortunately, it was "weighted down" by "two assumptions ... whic...
In five pages this paper discusses the significant contributions women made to the Revolutionary War in this profile of Mary Jemis...
to be every expensive. The British authorities felt that the colonies should pay taxes that would help cover the cost of housing s...
America as a sovereign power following the American Revolutionary War, there have been many conflicting views on what constitutes ...
the Articles, the US was not a nation, but as the state were referred to vaguely as being united by "a firm league of friendship" ...
revoke the three pence tax on each pound of tea(Schwarz 110). This refusal to lift the tax on American sales caused an uproar sta...
the two sides mounted (BMHS 2008). They finally erupted on March 5, 1770 (BMHS 2008). On that evening, "the Twenty-Ninth Regiment...
joining new political parties (CARF, 1998). The patriots who were also known as Whigs, were not disloyal to the Crown, but ...
In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...
In eight pages Wood's text is evaluated in terms of primary issues involving the radical nature of the Revolutionary War in terms ...