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Revolutionary War: An Influential Factors Leading To The American Revolution

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Jaheem hunt
Ashely Jesse
American History 1 Honors
November 9, 2017
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The American Revolution also known as the American Revolutionary war was a time when the 13 colonies fought for their independence from the british. The tension between the two had gotten to its peak and that's when “the shot heard around the world began. There are a variety of factors that led to the American Revolution but the most influential causes were the taxation among the colonies, the great awakening, and the enlightenment. Eventually the colonies started to get furious and started to question the british, and started to want their independence to the point where war was necessary. Which all to the american revolution, ending in a victory and the US claiming …show more content…

The enlightenment had some influential thinkers that started to get people to open their eyes and started to get them to think. Montesquieu, he believed in separation of powers which is the government should be split up with equal but different powers to protect the people. John Locke is an good example of an influential thinker that spirited the colonist because John Locke had the idea of natural rights(people had the right to life, liberty, and property). Mary Wollstonecraft, the first woman to call the rights of women. Mary believed that women should have equal opportunities for success, and civil existences. The enlightened thinkers have influenced many citizens in many ways, they began to start thinking and becoming more intelligent and independent for themselves. Those thinkers inspired the citizens to start questioning the british government and start to realize that they were being treated unfairly. They started to see the importance of separation of church and state, and also saw that the British didn’t have the right to rule over …show more content…

The Great Awakening started in 1662-1758, there were a variety religious revivals that spreaded across the american colonies. Jonathan Edwards noticed that the people were becoming to greedy and money seeking and spoke against their actions. The message that the preachers were trying to send out got noticed by both black’s and white’s and they took what the preachers were saying into consideration which led to the black people wondering why they get treated as non-human beings, since god said “all men were created equally”, this causes people to challenge

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