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War of Independence - Paine

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Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered

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Confederation Congress - J. Adams

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If a confederation should take place, one great question is how we shall vote

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Articles of Confederation - Brogan

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American government under the Articles of Confederation has no doubt been unfairly attacked, both in its time and since

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Articles of Confederation - Countryman

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By 1785 or 1786 few people with political awareness would have denied the Articles or Confederation needed serious change

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War of Independence - Countryman

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The army starved while men in position to profit took what they could

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Articles of Confederation - Brogan 2

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it shows conclusively that the Confederation could act wisely and effectively on some matters. But its diplomatic and military strength was nil; its financial affairs were hopeless

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Liberty - Washington

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Systems founded on the basis of equal liberties are merely ideal and fallacious

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African - Americans in War - Lord Dunmore

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I hereby further declare…negroes free that are willing to bear arms

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African - Americans - A. Adams

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It always appears a most iniquitous scheme to me to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we do

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Loyalists - Stark

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Loyalty was the normal condition

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Loyalists - Brogan

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The loyalists became mere floating refugee population

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Loyalists - Zinn

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The huge landholdings of the loyalists had been one of the great incentives to Revolution

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Economic Change - Countryman

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Its landowning elites would face tax bills that reflected what they really owned

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Women - A.Adams

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Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands

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Patriot Women - Countryman

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Women learned to rely increasingly on their own judgement and ability

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Loyalist Women - Countryman

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Confessed their inability to deal with important affairs; they pleaded their ignorance and threw themselves on the commissioners mercy

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Native Americans- Washington

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The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements

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Native Americans - Barnes

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Friend and protector, the British king, had not merely forgotten them in the negotiations; he had actually given away their land to his enemies, the Americans

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Critical Period - Countryman

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British merchants were…free to dump their goods on the American market. The result was a quick boom and then a deep depression

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Critical Period - Madison

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The trade of the country is in a deplorable condition

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Taxation - Henry

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What have we been fighting for all this time

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Shay’s Rebellion - Countryman

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the last gasp of the original spirit of the revolution

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North-West Ordinance - Taxation

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All fines shall be moderate and no cruel or unusual punishments shall be inflicted. No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property

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North-West Ordinance - Protect Indians

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The utmost faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and properties shall never be taken from them….unless in just and lawful wars authorised by Congress

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North-West Ordinance - Not helping Indians
As circumstances may require to lay out the parts of the district in which the Indian titles shall have been extinguished into counties and townships
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North-West Ordinance - Slavery
There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude
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Constitutional Convention - Franklin
If a proportionate representation takes place, the small states contend that their liberties will be in danger. If an equality of votes is to take place, the larger states say their money will be in danger
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Constitutional Convention - Beard
I found that many Fathers of the Republic regarded the conflict over the Constitution as springing essentially out of conflicts of economic interests
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Constitution - Zinn (balance)
The work of certain groups trying to maintain their privileges while giving just enough rights and liberties to enough of the people to ensure popular support
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Constitution / Hypocrisy - Jennings
Washington had fought against such powers (standing armies and tax collectors) when they were exerted by the British government, but when they came into his own hands he used them without hesitation.
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Constitution - Brogan
In practice it has worked exceedingly well
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Constitution Change - Brogan
It strongly resembled that old order...but it had eliminated from that order all those features which seemed obsolete or unjust in the New World...liberty and law were its two inescapable guiding lights
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Constitution - Morgan
If the revolution was built upon the principle that all men are created equal, the Constitution gave men a more equal share in the national government than the Confederation did
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Constitution - Bailyn
For many years it has been fashionable to view the Constitution as a conservative reversal of the idealism of the early years of the revolution. But it was not. The Constitution was written by...idealists...who had come to recognise, reluctantly the need to create the dangerous instruments of centralised power.
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Critical Period - Wood
The American Revolution, like all revolutions, could not fulfil all the high hopes of its leaders
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Critical Period (Definition) - Wood
The 1980s had become a critical period, a point at which the Revolution and the entire experiment in republicanism seemed to be in danger.
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Critical Period - Vermont Council of Censors
[Laws] were altered - realtered - made better - made worse; and kept in such a fluctuating position that persons in civil commission scarcely know what is law
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Ratification Debate - Smith
I have known the worth of good government by the (lack) of it...when I saw this constitution, I found that it was a cure for these disorders
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Ratification Debate - Randolph
[the presidency] would be a foetus of monarchy
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Ratification Debate - Burgess
Had Julius or Napoleon committed these acts they would have been pronounced coup dé'tat
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Ratification Debate - Hamilton
We owed it to our country to do on this emergency whatever we should deem essential to its happiness
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Bill of Rights - Declaration of Independence
nor be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without compensation
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Bill of Rights - Quartering Act
no soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner
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Women - Wood
Republicanism also enhanced the status of women...they were becoming more economically important and independant
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Shays Rebellion - Zinn
The new Constitution of 1780 had raised the property qualifications for voting
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Constitution - Zinn
Four groups...were not represented in the Constitutional Convention: slaves, indentured servants, women, men without property. And so the Constitution did not reflect the interests of those groups
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Native Americans - Berkhofer
Whether conceived of as noble or savage, the Indian stood in the way of American progress according to the ideology of Americanism
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Aims - Bailyn
[The aim of the Revolution was] not to recast the social order but to transform the political system
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Newburgh Conspiracy - Webster
The soldiers and other public creditors, who had really and actually supported the burden of the war, have not been paid, ought to be paid, can be paid and must be paid
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Economic Challenges - Zinn
Veterans of the Continental Army ... had been treated poorly on discharge - given certificates for future redemption instead of immediate cash
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Treaty of Paris - Brogan
Not only did the British recognise American Independence....they conceded most generous boundaries to the new republic. [But] the Peace of Paris left many problems unsolved
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Ratification Debate - Vile
Divided the country as strongly as had the earlier fight for independence

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