THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Using power to do good.
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Abuse of power.
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Selling land to other countries.
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Treating others fairly.
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Detailed explanation-1: -1. arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. 2. the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler.
Detailed explanation-2: -In antiquity the word tyrant was not necessarily pejorative and signified the holder of absolute political power. In its modern usage the word tyranny is usually pejorative and connotes the illegitimate possession or use of such power.
Detailed explanation-3: -/ˈtɪr. ən.i/ government by a ruler or small group of people who have unlimited power over the people in their country or state and use it unfairly and cruelly: This, the president promised us, was a war against tyranny.
Detailed explanation-4: -plural tyrannies. : a government in which all power is in the hands of a single ruler. : harsh, cruel, and severe government or conduct.
Detailed explanation-5: -Stalinism in the former Soviet Union is another example, particularly during the Great Purge of the 1930s, when even members of the ruling Politburo perished. The Nazi regime of 1933-45 Germany, ruled by Adolph Hitler, is another classic example of governmental tyranny, with mass extermination in the Holocaust.