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A Kind of Revolution

In the beginning the author explains how was it that the idea of fighting against the English, was mostly encouraged by the people of high power, the rich and the people who owned great part of the land at that time. “George Washington was the richest man in America, John Hancock was a prosperous Boston merchant. Benjamin Franklin was a wealthy printer. And so on.” The idea of a revolution really didn’t matter to the poor, as well as slaves and women, who didn’t have nearly the same rights and power of the above mentioned.

That’s why the poor white population, was tricked into fighting by offering them to start becoming owners of the land instead of being just tenants. However, with the fighting going on, inflation grew, and the poor were just being paid about “6.60 a month, while a colonel received $75 a month”(p. 85). Colonels, which were in that case, people who already owned land, and other powe


Other amendments on the constitution suffered the same faith; fact is that the founding fathers didn’t want a balance except one among the dominant forces at that time. “They didn’t want a balance between slaves and masters, propertyless and property holders, Indians and white.” (p. 101) and that also included that the women of America wouldn’t have the same rights either.

Later, the French, who had helped the revolution by blocking supplies and reinforcements from the English, later gave land to the British in the west of the Appalachians. The Indians then united, and made war “on the British in what was called “Pontiac’s Conspiracy” by the British, and “a liberation war for independence” in the words used by Francis Jennings.”(p. 86) also, the Indians played a big part in the revolution, first fighting alongside the French, and later with the British, but then they were faced in “a new la

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Benjamin Franklin, Congress President”, French British, , Bill Rights, Sedition Act, Appalachians Indians, Francis Jennings”p, Conspiracy” British, John Hancock, people power, people owned, didn’t balance, people owned land, owned land,

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Approximate Word count = 623
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