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Was The American Revolution Not Fair To Everyone Dbq

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The idea of the American Revolution is known to most people in America, but what most people dont know is if the American Revolution was actually Revolutionary. The American Revolution was from 1775 to 1783. The 13 British colonies went up and started something with the most poerful country in the world at the time, England, the odds were no where near being in the colonies favor in the beginning. The war was quite obviously and surprisingly won by the 13 colonies, who later named themselves the United States of America with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The American Revolution as a whole was not very impactful, but the idea of the Revolution was very important. The Revolution was not fair to everybody, especially people of color …show more content…

Inside Document G, there is a speech made by a valedictorian student, that happened to be African-American talking about how his life after school would go nowhere compared to a white students. By saying that his life after school would go nowhere compared to that of a white students, proves that the Revolution was not fair to everybody, it was more lenient to white males. "Pardon me if i feel insignificant and weak.... shall i be a mechanic? No one will employ me; white boys wont work with me." With that quote being presented, it easily proves that the Revolution was not fair. Even when an African-American student achieves such an amazing thing such as being valedictorian, they were still not given the opportunity to do what they wanted to do with their life, instead they would have to work on farms when they had talent to do so much …show more content…

In document B, they use a portion of the Declaration of Independence that talks about how people should be treated equally and everyone has natural rights. But contradictory to the section of The Declaration of Independence used in Document B, Document A the letter from the three Seneca Indian leaders in 1790 states that the power they want is what seems to "detroy" their rights. "You told us you could crush us to nothing... as if our want for strength had destoyed our rights... Were the terms dictated to us by your commisioners reasonable and just?" That was a part of the letter written by the Seneca Indian leaders in 1790. While this was said in The Declaration of Independence; "We hold these truths to be self evident... all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" Unalienable is another word for inalienable which means "unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor" and that seems to be exactly what happened. The rights of the Seneca Indians were not being treated reasonably by the rest of the United States, they did not get the same "life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" that the rest of the United States, when they are technically the exact same as

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