The Revolution Of The United States

In regards to the American Revolution, the point that armed rebellion became inevitable arrived when after nearly five constant years of American colonist protesting. American 's had enough and needed to take a stand for the numerous inequalities they were forced to deal with. It was foreseeable that the American Revolution took place due to the unfair taxes that the British were giving Americans. Also, England was not allowing Americans their freedom, along with violence and the political dominance by the Parliament over the colonies by announcing the Stamp Act in 1765, which happened to nearly affect all Americans tremendously.

It was the first revolution to majorly succeed and change how people saw their countries, it was the American Revolution. The American Revolution was the first successful revolution against a European empire that provided a model for many other colonial peoples who realized that they too could break away and become self-governing nations (New world Encyclopedia, 1).The American Revolution was vital to history because ideas seen by other countries started a chain reaction. Many ideas were taken into account when the Americans revolted against Europe and all of these played important factors throughout history. Ideas about liberty, equality, representation, and natural rights were first seen as properly put into action to change old systems in the American Revolution. As the American Revolution was the first to succeed and earn freedom, it greatly affected countries all around the world on how they made freedom and equality a part of their government

Between 1770 and 1776, resistance to imperial change turned into a full-on revolution. The American Revolution, also known as the Revolutionary War, was a time of revolting and political uprising, in which the 13 colonies separated from the British Empire, forming the independent nation known as the United States of America. Though the American Revolution began because the colonies wanted independence from Britain, many important historical events and revolts also lead to the tensions and resistance to what resulted in freedom and independence for the colonies from British rule. Events such as the Stamp and Sugar Acts, the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, and the Continental Congress led to expanding tensions and soon to the outbreak of the American Revolution.

This was hading towards closing the gap between the rich and poor by nationalizing sugar and tobacco farms, electricity provider, transport, housing, produsing piotal services feel of cost. Now that cuba has no rich or poor the coutry will be better because there will be no segregation between the rich and the poor because there are all

“The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.” - John Adams, 1818

The American Revolution was a modern and democratic revolution headed by the upper middle class and had three key phases, a moderate beginning, radical middle, and a conservative end.

When the American Revolution first broke out, many countries did not give the colonies more than a passing thought; most assumed that this rebellion would quickly be quelled by the world renowned British army and the colonies would once again be under their control. However, under the leadership of military officers and the guidance of laws and proclamations set forth by the Founding Fathers, America succeeded in their revolution against the control of Britain. Textbooks and teachers have praised America for years, stating that the revolution was a major turning point in world history, setting precedence for future revolutions, such as the French Revolution just a decade after the American Revolution ended. However, in later years, historians have begun to argue that the American Revolution was not the first of its kind, or unique in the way researchers previously stated. The Declaration of Independence, though groundbreaking in its own right, was influenced by documents and declarations in the English Civil War, such as the Petition of Rights and the English Bill of Rights. The Declaration of Independence, in turn, was a base for the authors and contributors of France’s Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. Furthermore, for all the connections in the chain of antecedents for these documents and the documents themselves, such as philosophical and religious writings, they did not build off of each other in terms of giving rights to more and more people; women and other

Although Afro-Cubans made up nearly half of the Cuban population during Cuba’s colonial period Spanish culture, trends, and biases were the dominant ideology. Thus, due to the dynamics of the Spanish colonial rule in Cuba compounded by a Spanish inherent belief of cultural superiority, Afro-Cubans experienced a long history of repression. Aline Helg, comments on the oppressive nature of the Afro-Cuban existence during the Spanish colonial rule by stating:

The American Revolution is typically looked at as a conservative movement, but it seems most of the actions taken were very radical. They were fighting to defend their rights, governed and natural. The American Revolution was as radical as any other revolution, in a special 18th century way, and this seems to hold true while looking at the new waves of thinking. It involves the Whigs and Tories, and while they are at opposite sides of the spectrum, they consecutively agreed to not address and higher-law principles so they would not have to rework their entire system.. The Revolution worked against this, and the parties chose to pretend it was not a serious movement and act, as they believed it would not take any effect. More people got involved and all aspects of life began to be questioned and revolutionized. The Revolution seems to be radical in a more definitive way as it caused segregation of beliefs, the Declaration of independence, and

In 1848, gold discoveries in California triggered one of the largest migrations the world has ever seen. People from the Eastern United States and immigrants from around the world all converged on California with hopes of finding riches. When they arrived, they would make treks to mining camps in inland California. These camps were often in spaces that were relatively unpopulated before the arrival of forty-niners, and when their populations started to boom there became a growing need for law enforcement in mining camps. Law enforcement could be official police officers, but some mining camps instead had vigilante committees. These groups would often use tactics such as whippings, beatings, and hangings to enforce the law in their space. Hangings, although not common, are the most remembered of these punishments. This is because hangings at the time were popular public events, and have since been remembered and re-remembered by Californians with nostalgia as an effective way to achieve to justice in a chaotic time. Californians used these “hanging trees” both to enforce law and as a way to assert a white power structure on the minorities in gold rush spaces, but explain them to others as a mean to maintain justice in otherwise unstable areas, while downplaying racial motivations behind the hangings. Jared Farmer documents histories behind some of California’s most famous hanging trees in his article “Witness to a Hanging,” and while he does illustrate the ways Californians

This week’s reading of Silence on Black Cuba interesting in how it showed racism and discrimination in “Black” Cuba. Although about 50 percent of the estimated 6.7 million population of Cuba was African decent, there was still discrimination towards them. What was even more interesting was that even some of the Afro-Cuban soldiers who fought along side Fidel and Che encountered discrimination. This being the case, Fidel simply downplayed the issue stating that their discrimination wasn’t as serious as the Southern States.

In the early 1800s, America was rapidly changing. Workshops, run by craftspeople in the North, were being replaced by large-scale factories, owned by business people. Small family farms, from the South, began to give way to large cotton plantations, owned by wealthy white people and worked by enslaved African Americans. People began to believe they were losing power in their government. Some people began to think that only wealthy, property-owning men managed the government the best. Many people hoped for change. They put their trust in Andrew Jackson, hoping that Jackson would defend the rights of the common people and slave states.

Delegates from 12 American colonies gather at the Second Continental Congress to discuss America’s future. The year is 1775, 12 years after the end of the French and Indian War England fought to protect the colonies. This war gave Britain significant debt that the king felt the colonists owed them. The French and Indian War caused England to end their period of salutary neglect by imposing many new taxes on America, provoking the colonists to protest. These protests increased tensions and animosities until April 1775, when the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord. This divided the colonies into two sides: the Loyalists, those who remained loyal to Britain and its government; and the

Despite Cuban economic woes, the Cubans did enjoy some success in other areas. First, the redistribution of wealth was responsible for reducing malnutrition. Second, the Cuban government established a national health care system that rivaled even developed countries. Third, the Cuban government developed a multilevel educational system that resulted in the near complete elimination of illiteracy. And fourth, the Cuban population was infused with a strong sense of nationalistic pride (Theirot, pgs. 257-258).

Despite these discriminatory practices, the white elite insisted that Cuban society was fair to all its members by hiding behind what Helg calls "the myth of racial equality". According to this myth, Cuba had attained racial equality because white masters had freed their slaves during the first war of attempted independence, blacks and whites had fought side by side in the war, and that if blacks were not successful, it was due to their own lack of merits (Helg 105-106). However, the myth failed to take into account that some masters had opposed the freeing of their slaves, that Afro-Cubans were over-represented in the independence army and in the lower ranks, and that slavery had deprived blacks of the opportunity to acquire the skills they needed to succeed in professional careers (105-106).