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American Revolution Dbq Essay

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The call to revolution is often romanticized to show a needy people rising up against their oppressors. The entire population tends to advocate for the change. Unfortunately, reality is often the opposite. Even though a minority of colonists, patriots, demanded revolution the war and Revolution, itself, had a huge impact on the political, social, and economic aspects of life in the American colonies from 1775 to 1800. Politically, the time after Revolution, 1777 – 1800, was full of tension. The Articles of Confederation were failing and many people were unhappy. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams referred to the people of Massachusetts by stating, “Some of them were crying out for a paper currency, so for an equal distribution …show more content…

In 1783, right after the war a Chickasaw Chief remarked, “And to find that our Brothers the Americans are inclined to take us by the hand, and smoke with us at the great fire, which we hope will never be extinguished” (Document C). He described a time of peace between the natives and the Americans. Three years later things were going downhill. “You kindled you council fires where you thought proper, without consulting us, at which you held separate treaties and have entirely neglected our plan…” (Document E). The founding fathers were failing to put together a successful nation, nor maintaining positive relations with their neighbors, with this opportunity to start from scratch, and things were deteriorating …show more content…

In 1787, the first law forbidding slavery was enacted. The slaves ascended to a status of human northwest of the Ohio River. It was still a peacekeeping law, though: escaped slaves were not granted freedom if their master reclaimed them or allowed into the NW Territory (Document H). Agriculture is sometimes misplaced on the value scale. The Medal of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture had a goal of motivating the general public to revere or at least respect farmers. Colombia is standing to the side of the farmer representing the freedom of farming. The single farmer suggests it is the either New England or the Middle colonies and just a little farm (Document F). Socially, the farmers wanted respect. The time after the revolution was a time of revitalization for the now free

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