THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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to establish a framework for government
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to state the reasons for the colonies to separate from England
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to express reasons for limiting immigration
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to list arguments for women’s suffrage
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Detailed explanation-1: -The purpose of the Declaration was to declare our independence and to explain to the world our reasons for declaring independence. Americans were upset with unfair taxation, British occupancy, and the tyranny of King George III.
Detailed explanation-2: -Its goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies, and to announce the creation of a new country. The introductory sentence states the Declaration’s main purpose, to explain the colonists’ right to revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Revolution Begins In the early 1770s, more and more colonists became convinced that Parliament intended to take away their freedom. In fact, the Americans saw a pattern of increasing oppression and corruption happening all around the world. Parliament was determined to bring its unruly American subjects to heel.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Declaration of Independence (1776) built on the American settlers’ common goals of unity, freedom and protection of individual rights.
Detailed explanation-5: -Britain took the colonies under their control, rather than just providing them with security. Since Great Britain had, once again, transgressed their control of the colonies, the Americans had every right to revolt. Therefore, all of their actions that followed after Britain’s wrongdoings were justified.