The Revolutions

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The Revolutions

Revolution in America

The beginning of the Revolutionary period is usually stated with the year 1763, when Britain began, after his victory in the French and Indian War to reform the administration and taxation of its North American colonies, which led to protests there soon. The conflict escalated in the 1770s to the outbreak of the American War of Independence 1775, and the formal declaration of independence of the United States on 4 July 1776. The end of the revolutionary period often set with the year 1783, in which the British after their defeat in the Peace of Paris had to recognize the independence of the United States (Higginbotham, 2005). Other historians do not reckon time of the Revolution nor the years until the ratification of the still widely accepted in the United States Constitution and the swearing in of George Washington as the first president in 1789.

Colonies made in the country. In the course, of further waves of immigration was the mid-18th Century thirteen American colonies established, all of whom were under the dominion of the British crown. While in the north farm economy prevailed, had in the southern colonies a plantation economy (the preferred cultivation of cotton, indigo, rice and tobacco) emerged, called to the African-American slaves. Since the extra-continental demand was largely responsible for the sales of products produced there, it influenced mainly sales and profits of the Southern landlords (members of the “planter aristocracy”, Gentlemen Farmers as well linked. Therefore, the southern colonies were particularly dependent on the outside world. In the mid-Atlantic colonies, there was also the emergence of some flourishing port cities, especially Boston. Maritime trade was now in general an important economic sector in the New England world.

Revolution in France

The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with varying ...