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The Rise Of The American Revolution Essay

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There have been many historians who have debated over the exact cause of the American Revolution. The cause was certainly from conflict; the real question however is whether or not that conflict came from the social classes within the United States or from the tyranny of Britain. Historians who are more radical tend to believe it came from class conflict, while more conservative historians believe it was rooted in the need for independence from Britain. It is true that England had a role to play in the American Revolution, however the problems between the classes was the driving force. The radical historians that view history from “the bottom up” shape the argument that the problems within the United States is what brought the need for the revolution. One historian, Alfred Young wrote a couple different essays giving much information about economic differences and the attitudes that were adopted by the colonists at that time. How the difference in the class structure effected a shoemaker, George Roberts Twelves Hughes, and how nervous and timid his initial meeting with John Hancock was. However after being abused by those who thought themselves better he began to partake in the revolution, this later changed his reactions to his “betters” to where he would not so much as tip his hat to them. Young also discusses in another essay about the creation of the constitution, and the bargains that the Founding Fathers had made in order to see it ratified. The elite’s compromises

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