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    Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny, and Slavery. Those are just a few things that America powered through to get where we are today. Our Forefathers attempted to rectify what some would consider harsh actions made by the kingdom of Britain in the mid 1700’s. The British didn’t take the American territories seriously and just saw them as colonies to be used and exploited in whatever way that best suited the kingdom’s interest. The morning of April 19, 1775 America was then no longer just negotiating

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    B.) The origins of the American Revolution did not fall under one single event; tensions have been building up between the British Colonists (not under the title of “Americans” yet) and Britain for around a decade. The war would not begin till 1775 with the battle of Lexington and Concord. However, the Colonists “resisted” in other forms before this significant battle. Before we talk about the events that lead to the American Revolution, it is essential to know the state the world was in that caused

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    carts to get through, At that time child Labor during the IR was like slavery because it had forced many kids to work instead of their parents realizing that their children could get a better job if they let them go to school because the children are supposed to be able to play and get an education not work for people in coal mines and cotton factories and It caused pain for the kids and it was unfair to the children and Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North

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    Anti Literacy laws were crucial for Slavery to even exist in the United States. The first anti-literacy laws against slaves were established in South Carolina before the constitution in 1740 that allowed for slaves to read but denied them the right to write. Georgia followed suite in 1759 developing their own laws banning the teaching of writing to slaves, but similar to south Carolina not their ability to read. Soon many other southern states enacted laws to ban the teaching of writing to slaves

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    The treatment of the African American slaves was deplorable. They were not treated as human beings but as disposable property. This gave rise to the Abolitionist Movement. The Movement did not gain any traction until “The American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799), widely seen as revolutions by citizens against oppressive

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    Washington Irving expertly reflects American history in his piece of 1819 “Rip Van Winkle.” Unbeknownst to Rip Van Winkle, the colonies are now free of British rule as Irving writes, “Here a general shout burst from the bystanders—‘A Tory! a Tory! a spy! A refugee! hustle him! Away with him’” (Matthews, 2007, para. 36). Rip enters the village armed, ignorant of the fact that he presents the look of a loyalist. The question of being a refugee is preferable to accusations of being a Tory, as a colonist

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    A SELECTION OF PAST AP U.S. FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS: Part 1: Colonial Period to Civil War Colonial Times 1607 -1775 1. From 1600 -1763, several European nations vied for control of the North American continent. Why did England win the struggle? (73) 2. In the seventeenth century, New England Puritans tried to create a model society. What were their aspirations, and to what extent were those aspirations fulfilled during the seventeenth century? (83) 3. In the two decades before the

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    slaves had been a major discussion point since the foundation of the United States. In 1775, the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery was founded by the Quakers, one of the first groups of abolitionists, because they viewed slavery as un-Christian. Even when creating the Constitution of the Untied States, the matter of slavery and its morality came up as a question. For almost a hundred years, slavery was something that the country could never agree on. It was such a divisive issue that

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    Indigenous: originating or occurring naturally in a particular place. In the United States, Christopher Columbus is honored as a hero who discovered this country, but he should be seen as a invader who enslaved and seized the native people. California undoubtedly made the appropriate decision to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day because how can America say Columbus discovered the United States when the Native Americans originated and inhabited the land first? The world continues to observe

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    The Revolutionary War The Revolutionary War started on April 19, 1775 at Lexington and Concord. America was very much unprepared with no central government or army. The congress stepped up as the government and began to organize an army. The Revolutionary War did not end until September 3, 1783 with the signing of the final peace treaty between America and Great Britain. The victory in the Revolution War led to the birth of a new independent nation. After the Revolution it was a time

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