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American Revolution Research Paper

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Beginning to American Revolution

The lands named the Americas, eventually by the European, were long home to many societies before their arrival. Archeological evidence implies not all early migrants set to the Americas via the Bering Strait. Migrants from Asia appear to have settled far South as Chile and Peru. Later rise the great civilizations of the Mayas and Aztecs and the Inca in Peru. These civilizations were more advance than land north, but even North American natives (the Indians) manage to rise civilization and expand. European looks westward for two reasons, (a) significant growth in population during the fifteenth century and the deadly epidemic of the Black Death. (b) Emergence of new governments. A century after contact much …show more content…

English in the Americas was no doubt the smallest of the other imperial ventures such as the French to the North and Spanish to the South. Commercial societies with new agriculture learned from the Natives emerged. In the south, cultivation of tobacco and cotton dependent on slave labor rise new trade. Tobacco became the first profitable crop. The north survived of traditional food crops. “Between 1640 and 1660, Virginia’s population rose from 8,000 to over 40,000” (Brinkley 27). Cities such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia emerged as trading centers of growing populations into more complex communities. Eighteenth century, English settlement stretched from today’s Maine to the South of Georgia. Existence with the Spanish and French rose conflict. Relatively small portion of the America were controlled by the …show more content…

Delegates from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, and New England meet to negotiate a treaty with the Iroquois (several Indian nations), of the common threat; the French and its allies. The French empire was vast in America. French and Indian war lasted nearly nine years altering imperial relationship. Americans begin to rebel English rule and begin war of independence. Colonies immediately move toward mountains reaching the Ohio Valley. Indian groups support the Proclamation. The British wanted firmer control trying many strategies. (Insert some acts) Also wanting to extract money from the colonies. Long developing assumption of English rights to rule themselves. Colonist develop the ideology of defiance resulting in resistance. Britain and America come to view as two different societies. Differences propel into war that would revolutionize those of the New

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