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Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense questions the King’s priorities and why American colonists would stay with him, which gave the American colonists the confidence in themselves to separate from the British. In Thomas Paine’s first page of his pamphlet Common Sense, Paine says “As a long and violent abuse of power.” Now for years the colonists had believed the King had bad advisers and that basically everyone in Britain but the King was the problem. Paine goes on to state “The remains of Monarchical

The removal of the Loyalists helped level out society and gave others the chance to own land for their selves. After the Revolution, society felt like they needed a set of rules in which to operate by. This is when they came up with the Articles of Confederation. This document

In the 1760’s, the British government started passing laws governing the colonies. The colonists were fed up with the way things were going and no longer accepted the propaganda that Britain was feeding them about why these laws were beneficial to them. They began to protest the treatment they were receiving on the basis that they moved to America to escape such tyranny and persecution. The American Revolution was caused by many things, but the most important are “Taxation without Representation

A General To Remember "Come, my boys! Let us go back and we will find the Gamecock. But as for this damned old fox, the devil himself could not catch him!" That was the famous quote by Banastre Tarleton, a British general and soldier, who gave the “Swamp Fox” his name. Francis Marion was the “Swamp Fox’s” real name. Marion was born on February 26th 1732, in Goat Field Plantation in Saint Johns Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina. When Marion was a boy, he set off to sail at the age of 15 but

managing a noteworthy blow to American morale. The next day, Burgoyne accomplished another triumph over the Americans at Hubbardton. By early August, however, Burgoyne's favorable luck ran out. As opposed to the expectations of the British War Office, loyalists did not turn out in strength to bolster St. Leger. Buried in a twenty-one-day attack of Fort Stanwix, St. Leger was compelled to withdraw into Canada. In New York, Howe ruled against meeting Burgoyne at Albany for moving into Pennsylvania to stand

audacity that his colonies would attempt a rebellion. Immediately afterwards, King George III had sent half of the English Navy, two-thirds of the English Army, and hired mercenaries from Germany. The rebellion lacked numbers and strength; many Loyalists still resided in the colonies ready to join forces with the monarchy. In 1776 an English immigrant by the name of Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet titled “Common Sense.” This fifty-page pamphlet inspired thousands of colonists, who may have never

but three acts in particular stuck out to me. One is Isabel who is the protagonist of the book. The young girl is resilient, and as brave as a bull. She is Mr. and Mrs. Lockton’s slave. Another character is Hannah who is the wife of one of the loyalists’ soldiers, and she has been staying with the Locktons and working for them with the slave girl. The last character who shows true resolve is one of the Patriots in the town. He is a brave bookstore owner and you could say that he is a fearless friend

political values and ideas that completely altered the identity of the colonists. While some Americans still sided with the British (Loyalists), others came to develop a new form of patriotism based on viewing the British as an enemy and not an ally (Patriots). For example, in 1777, George Washington and his army were struggling in a freezing Valley Forge while American Loyalists were supplying shoes and clothing to British troops just nearby, with no regards to what

Introduction The Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred on 19 April 1775 between the British Regulars and the Patriot Militia, also known today as Americans, in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. “The Battles of Lexington and Concord is often referred to as the “Shot Heard Around the World” and the beginning of the American Revolutionary War” (Fischer, 1994). The Battles of Lexington and Concord consisted of in four events: the skirmish in Lexington between the British Regulars

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, sentiments of nationalism in Ireland were growing rapidly. For nearly thirty years debates about Home Rule in Ireland were prevalent in Parliamentary discourse and over the course of these year, three different bills were proposed. However, in 1912, the third Home Rule bill was passed in Westminster, only to be suspended upon British entrance into the First World War. Irish members of Parliament that had been pushing for Home Rule for many