Colonial America And The Revolutionary War

I really think that in the American Revolution it was the Americans who won more, not just the freedom from Great Britain. The Americans asserted their rights and their freedom through a big fight where many lost more than others, but after all, with a great purpose. On the other hand, just as they could win everything, they could also be left with nothing. The Native Americans end up losing their lands, their rights and their freedom, all due to their inclinations of sides, their thinking, and their actions. Also, the British of course lost, and among their losses, there are a lot of men and money, this because of the success that the Americans had in the

When examining early American history it is commonplace, besides in higher academia, to avoid the nuances of native and colonizer relations. The narrative becomes one of defeat wherein the only interaction to occur is one of native American’s constant loss to white colonizers. It is not to say that the European colonizers didn’t commit genocide, destroy the land and fabric of countless cultures, but rather when looking at history it is important to take a bottom’s up approach to storytelling. We must examine in what ways the native Americans fought English colonization, not just through war, but also through the legal system that was established after the area was colonized.

From the period of 1754 to 1763, the British engaged in a war with the French within American territory. This war, fought due to both French and Native American hostilities, affected both the Americans view on the British and British treatment of their colonies. Ultimately, the French and Indian war lead to political, economic, and geographical changes for the American colonists and Great Britain.

An estimated seventeen million men, women, and children were enslaved and transported from Africa to the West Indies by Europeans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Before these individuals became slaves, there were indentured servants. Between the colonial era and Revolutionary War many changes in the practice of labor were made. Expansion of slavery throughout America brought about different conditions of slave life and Paternalism. Slavery in America was very different before and after the year 1790; these changes greatly affected the conditions in which these individuals lived and are worth analyzing.

In 1776, the American people declared themselves an independent nation. The American people were traumatized by the Revolution and feared a strong central government. This led to their first attempt at a government, the Articles of Confederation, which ultimately failed. After this let down of a government, the founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, which would become the law of the American land. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were two influential individuals, who were originally involved in the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Both were involved in the political side of the Revolutionary war, but when speaking of it, told alternate versions of the war. As they approached the end of their lives, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams dedicated themselves to telling extremely differentiating versions of the Revolutionary War; Jefferson focusing on the glory and Adams focusing on the hardships, while Jefferson’s version is the only one recorded in the textbooks students use today.

Throughout the development and colonization of America, there were a lot of changes that affected Native American, Africans, and women. Within this paper, I will attempt to provide some insight and bring to light some of the changes and how they affected the folks involved. As the New World grew and colonized the rights of all were not equal or fair. Native Americans were focused on their homes to provide the New World. While Africans were kidnapped and focused into slave labor to provide economic growth for the New World. During this time women were always seen as a lower class citizen, not allowed any say in the way the colony was governed or grew. All of these minorities fought from the beginning of

The British did not use what little “fans” they did have to fight in the revolutionary war. The colonists immediately assumed that the war would be over quick with no problems they thought that the colonist would be no problem. What they did is they decided that they should capture Boston, it was a vital port for the colonists it would weaken the colonists, but after the battle of bunker hill they figured out that this strategy was no good. After the British lost the battle of Saratoga the colonist, who had no navy and untrained troops, started receiving help from foreign countries. It made them look more powerful and feared in the eyes of the British.

When the British settlers arrived in America, in 1607, it was realized they did not have enough food or supplies necessary to survive. The settlers received help from the Native Americans and even though these people were essential for the survival of these foreigners, they were soon enslaved and killed. Many documents in American history have said every man is created equally, and mistreatment is not acceptable, but American actions throughout this time period do not reflect these ideas. These British natives had just been freed of the monarchy in their country, yet soon after their arrival, the settlers began to declare themselves the authority figures in America, leaving everyone else below them. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano best exemplifies this idea through economic factors, the widely accepted inhumanity towards African Americans, and shows how documents written with these American ideals in mind only apply to the people of the same race and gender of whom these documents were written by.

Author Alan Taylor believes that our traditional views of colonial history need to be revised in order to truly appre-ciate the events leading to a developed American society. Taylor offers a reconsidered approach in his book, Ameri-can Colonies, along with explanation to the new inclusions that will offer a substantive variation of perspectives as opposed to more conventional historical summarization. In the introduction, Taylor formulates his claim: That the traditional story of American uplift makes too many generalizations on the groups of people involved in the coloni-zation process to warrant a truthful narrative of the settling of America. Previous volumes of similar matters fail to be mindful that not all of colonial America was English, as native peoples encountered the Spanish from Mexico, the Russians travelling through Siberia, and the French navigating around the Great Lakes region (xi). Furthermore, plenty of English colonists did not prosper in the

From the foundation of the colonies beginning with the founding of Jamestown until the beginning of the Revolutionary War, different regions of the eastern coast had different characteristics. Once established, the thirteen British colonies could be divided into three geographic areas: New England, Middle, and Southern. Each of these had specific economic, social, and political developments that were unique to the regions.

When the French and Indian War, the Seven Years War, officially came to an end with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. North America had divided between the British and Spanish. Britain had driven the French up north to Canada, and extended their claims of land west to the Mississippi River. It seemed like the British lands that they owned in North America were more secure than ever, but they were having some problems with the American colonies.

Malcolm X once said “We (African-Americans) didn't land on Plymouth Rock, the rock was landed on us.”1 While not comparing it as such, nor discounting in any way the tremendous suffering and struggle for equality African-Americans have endured, this work presents a very strong argument that the native peoples of North America, have suffered as much or arguably more so. Indeed several bands had already been obliterated by disease and war with the White invaders from the sea before most of the English colonies were even well established, a pattern which would only continue to get worse. For the Indians living in what is now the eastern United States in the 1770's, the revolution was merely the continuation of a generational war they had been steadily losing for over a century already. Native peoples all across the vast hinterlands had coped with the destruction of their lives and livelihoods as they always had, by adapting and evolving as their situations changed which continued through the revolutionary and beyond.

The French and Indian War impacted the relationship between Britain and the American colonist in an extremely negative way for the most part. It caused much conflict, including many

The American Revolution is one of the most lauded and celebrated periods in the history of the United States. People revere the patriotic unity and radical changes employed by the Revolutionary War and the original Constitution. But while the formation of a new nation was radical in and of itself, the Founding Fathers warned against viewing the time as a perfect, golden age. They believed that true change would only manifest in the generations to come. The American Revolution led to fundamental societal changes in the future, but its short term effects, from 1775 to 1800, including governmental changes, like the distribution of power, economic changes, like the distribution of wealth and status, and societal changes, like equality of the sexes and races, were not as radically new—and different from Britain’s—as many Americans believe.

The revolutionary era is generally defined by particular events and results being ignited from discontent that involved governed individuals from the states. Amongst all these outcomes, the founding fathers intended the greater good for the future and conformed to change in the political, social and economic order of society. The old form of government that the states were used to being governed was overthrown and the new birth of democracy was formed. Nevertheless, no true variance was made clear in the fiscal trend of development, and the tiers of society remained all but untouched following the Revolution. The Federalist party, spearheaded by none other than James Madison, were as a whole in favor of a first ever developed draft of the