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Birth Of A New Nation

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  The Birth Of A New Nation
  
  
  AMH 2010 Term Paper
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
       Imagine England as a man and the 13 colonies as a woman. England, the man, decides to not respect the 13 colonies, the woman, as a individual. He is just making rules and taxes while disregarding the all her democratic rights of an Englishman. That is just the setting that led to the birth of a New Nation. It were a lot of events along the way to this birth. While it would be hard to pinpoint to any one seed that singularly led to the rebellion, there is no doubt that the American view that they were entitled to the full democratic rights of Englishmen, while the British view that the American colonies were just colonies to be used and exploited in whatever way best suited the Great Britain, insured that war was inevitable.
       One of the central myths that many Americans about the Revolutionary War is that victory over the British redcoats was quick and easy. In this nationalist version of history, a united, freedomloving people rose up in righteous anger at the King's tyrannical actions, grabbed their trusty flintlocks hid behind trees and walls, defeated the dull British soldiers who were sitting ducks in their scarlet uniforms, and established the United States of America. Throughout the story, there is a certain inevitability about American victory. Historians have begun to recognize that the American Revolutionary War was a complex event that belies a simplistic nationalist view...