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Explain why early European explorers and rulers might have decided to take the dangerous journey across the Atlantic to claim land and colonize North America.
In a time of European superpowers during the Middle Age, European monarchies wanted to acquire more land and territories to strengthen their power and dominion. That is why the Kings supported explorations and navigations expeditions to find more or better routes to Africa and the Indies. Portugal had a great navy for the time. Spanish also had a good navy and hired the best navigators to lead the expeditions.
For instance, that was the case of Christopher Columbus, who received the sponsorship of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabelle del Castille -King and Queen of Spain- to explorer a shorter route to the Indies. That is how he arrived in the Americas on October 12, 1492.
<span>In 1763, the French and Indian War ended in favor of the British, bringing about a change in the political, economic, and ideological relationship between Britain and the US colonies. When the French and Indian War ended, the countries that owned land in North America changed, and it led to Britain becoming one of the most powerful country. During this time, the relationship between American colonists and their British government was wary, and eventually led to the Proclamation of 1763. The Proclamation was Britain wanting to keep conflict from happening, however, it had the opposite effect on their colonists, as they felt that Britain abandoned their rights while imposing unnecessary rules onto them. On top of that, Britain increased the taxes and laws for their American colonists that strictly regulated trade, imposed taxes on commonly used items, and made sure that the Americans did not have relationships with any other European countries. This led to the Americans becoming infuriated because of these unjust taxations.
This sudden change in the amount of laws and taxes placed on the colonists strained the economic relationship the colonists had with their country. For example, the Wool, Hat, and Iron Acts forced Americans to ship their raw material to Britain, and to buy only finished products from them. On top of this, the Stamp Act enraged many of the colonists, and, as Benjamin Franklin stated, wanted the Act(s) to be repealed as quickly as possible. They practiced smuggling and non-importation/consumption of British goods, which strained their relationships even more.
Even though the colonial ideological values towards Britain began to change during the war, the colonists ability to fight back using boycotts proved that when they united together, they can change circumstances. Also, during and after the French and Indian War, the Americans soldiers felt that they had less liberty than the Englishmen. As stated by a Massachusetts soldier when he wrote that “we are debarred Englishmen’s liberty.” Their resentment continued to grow, until it became unbearable and it triggered the Revolutionary War. The French and Indian War was the trigger to the start of the American Revolution, as it changed the political, economic, and social status between England and her colonists, because the English imposed unfair taxes to help pay for their own economic struggles. The colonists, to fight back, boycotted, smuggled, and protested, further damaging their relationships with Britain. Finally, the last straw was when British troops shot into American crowds during the Boston massacre. From that point of history on, all status of countries had changed.<span>(note:horrible ending.. might want to change it)
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African Americans were considered, at best, second class citizens. Yet despite that, there were many African American men willing to serve in the nation’s military, but even as it became apparent that the United States would enter the war in Europe, blacks were still being turned away from military service. African Americans have served the U.S. military in every war the U.S has fought. Formalized discrimination against black people who have served in the U.S. military lasted from its creation during the Revolutionary War to the end of segregation by President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9981 in 1948.
He was doing what he thought was right and was standing up for himself and other<span> citizens.
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