Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conquered
A group of summer soldiers and sunshine patriots overthrew a
tyrannical monarchy despite the crown's overwhelming military and financial advantages.
The American Revolution - Scouting Report
The American Revolution - Scouting Report
FIVE EXPLANATIONS OF WAR
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1.Political Conflict: A struggle between tyrannical control of England & the liberty-loving Americans who saw an opportunity to carry out the beliefs of the Enlightenment thinkers
2. Practical: the impossibility of England’s maintaining colonies 3,000 miles away as part of its empire as well as the internal political conflicts in British government
3. Economic Conflict: between the growing American free enterprise system & the English mercantile system
4. Religious Conflict – between the variety of religions that settled in the colonies & the Church of England, the dominant religion of English officials & aristocrats
5. Social Conflict: The development of a new class structure in the colonies due to the ending of heredity, birthright status, & primogeniture, & the availability of land & the expansion of the the right to vote as social “level-ers”
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