The United Revolutionary World

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The American Revolution was created by a society of problem solvers searching for resolution. Fought by members of all social statuses, the revolution was a unifying force and a product of past actions. England’s involvement in the colonies began in the late 16th Century, attempting to create a source of raw materials to be sold cheaply back to Britain to be used to manufacture goods. Britain maintained this control, with varying intensity, until the Treaty of Paris, in 1783. Previous to the Revolution, in a period known as Salutary Neglect, the Glorious Revolution in England preoccupied England and gave the American colonies previously unknown freedoms and leniencies. After the stabilization of Great Britain, a crackdown

1850 Compromise: Henry Clay began a series of resolutions on January 29th, 1850 to try to find a good compromise in order to avoid problems between Northern and Southern Americans. The slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished and the fugitive slave act was amended.

The doors open slowly when a semi-delirious man uses his back to push them open. Makeshift bandages are nearly bled-through despite the string tourniquets a kind passerby had made for the now-destitute man after he had collapsed on the road to the hospital. He numbly rambles out his story, it’s not one the hospital staff is unfamiliar with but the macabre details are still worthy of nightmares. The man, Ismael, relives a more coherent version once the antibiotics have started to fight off the infections around his amputated hands: “The first victim was dragged forward and forced to kneel before a stump. As the man screamed, he severed one limb first, then the next” (Campbell, Ch. 1, para. 6). Ismael described the way that the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) attacked his village of Koidu, Sierra Leone – an area that is rich in diamonds, the catalyst that led not only to the RUF, but the civil wars that plagued the region. Even though Ismael’s story is likely a dramatized conglomerate of similar tales from the region, it does serve to illustrate the plight for which Sierra Leone was renown. Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola, and certain other African nations had been in a state of near constant conflict since the 1980s, or earlier.

In the early 1800s, it was generally known that in order to vote, a person was required to have a “stake” in society, they either had to pay taxes or own so many acres of land. Voting rights varied throughout the colonies, for example, some colonies added restrictions due to the religious beliefs of the voters. Furthermore, under the United States Constitution the presidential electors were chosen by the state legislatures not by the people, as well, eligibility to vote for members of the House of Representatives was left to the states. Women, Indians and blacks (slave or free) were restricted from voting almost in all regions. In our era, democracy is known as a government “for the people, by the people”, and is

In the mere beginnings of his presidency in 1801, Thomas Jefferson knew he was to live up to the expectations of the American public. A developing fear of President Jefferson’s were the rumors circulating concerning Spain’s control of the strategic ports of New Orleans. Fervently, the idea of Spain giving the ports back to the original owner of the French was becoming more of a possibility. Realization struck Thomas Jefferson that French military dictator, Napoleon Bonaparte persisted contemplating the plan to control the ports once again, and he wrote, “The cession of the Spanish Province of Louisiana to France, which took place in the course of the late war, will, if carried into effect, make a change in the aspect of our foreign relations which will doubtless have just weight in any deliberations of the Legislature connected with that subject”. By recording this former President Jefferson briefly envisioned altering his traditional foreign policy stance to an anti-French alliance with the British, “France placing herself in that door assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years.… From the moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation”.

The American Revolution, the single unifying factor that lead to the formation of the united nation that is America today, was but a dream during the colonial era. Before the Revolution and before America was born the New England, Middle and Southern colonies all claimed to be separate and independent entities. Therefore the only ties the colonies held was the language spoken and owing partisan loyalties to the British Empire.

Following the Revolutionary War in the late 1700’s, the United States of America was looking to create a democracy. The people voted Revolutionary War hero George Washington, as the first President to lead the newly born country. President Washington decided to turn ten square miles that were given to him into the capital of his country. It would be called Washington, District of Columbia, or Washington D.C. President Washington decided to place the most important building in the country, the Capitol Building, in the center of the city. Washington knew the process would take years to finish and that he was never going to see it finished, but he wanted the best for his country. Today, we see the full effect of the thousands of men and

After the independence of the United States in 1776, the new nation needed to establish and decide their global affairs. Since then the leaders of the United States from 1789 George Washington to 1823 James Monroe, which included the Federalists and the Jeffersonian parties. The United States was designed in their policies to ultimately benefit the United States and promote themselves in international affairs, to be considered as a new power in the world. The united states world policies were designed to benefit the Americans, using the American system which included protective tariffs to promote the American economy and supported the freedom of trade with Europe, enforcing isolationism from wars in Europe, and the protection of interests

By the close of the Revolution, the economic status quo of American society had been completely upended, presenting a radically different picture than was present before the Revolution. This is not to say that things being radically different meant that they were immediately made perfect or did not present the colonies with a whole new set of challenges. However, there was no question that breaking away from Britain and the restrictions they placed on American trade created a new economic environment in the colonies. Instead of trade be funneled through Britain and being constrained by acts like the Townshend Duties, the Tea Act and the Boston Port Act, the colonies were now free to develop their own trading relationships and markets. Expansion

While the geopolitical construct of the world around appears to be the natural order, it had in fact been a world shaped by the countless forces of ideological change. Through the struggle of the revolutionaries, their ideologies endure and impact society today. Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), a prominent character during the French Revolution created the notion of an ethnic identity during the revolution by generating the idea of a Frenchmen to further his goals through his Revolutionary Speech on the 5th February 1794. Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), the Party leader of the Chinese Communist Party advocated for a political change in his speech “Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” on the 30th June 1984 to allow for the improving of international relationships with its trading partners. Mikhail Gorbachev (b.1931), the head of the Soviet Union pushed for the increase economic liberation of the USSR to restore vigor into the failing Russian economy through his writing “From Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World” in 1986. These three men brought upon changes in society which has rippling effect in the world till this day. Looking at the works of the three men, they were similar in the economic factors that allowed for the ideology changes and the ultimate political aspect of the ideological changes. However, they differed in the use of force to achieve their ideological changes and the amount of political change they seek to invoke.