United_States_History

United States History United States History Prior to the American Revolution, the American people wanted to establish their own identity from the British. They did not want to be seen as the same as their oppressors. Since the British ruled America, up until revolution, the colonists were just like the British. As times grew harder, and the British grew ignorant, the American colonists wanted to be free of their dependence upon England. There were several documents that were created to incite American individuality from the British. The sources of the documents are from the Pennsylvania Gazette, Richard Henry Lee to Arthur Lee, Continental Congress, Famous Mather Byles: The Noted Boston Tory Preacher, Poet, and wit, and an excerpt from Letters from an American Farmer, by Hector St. John Crèvecoeur. The following picture is from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1754. This picture illustrated the need for colonies to come together to fight off the British. If they didn’t they would perish under British rule. Hence the phrase, “Join or Die.” Prior to the revolution, colonies were bickering among themselves whether or not they wanted to be separated from the English who cared for them for so many years. american, british, new, people, one, states, away, lee, america, three, documents, better, years, whose, wanted, thousand, rights, revolution, race, identity, henry, great, firmly, find, declaration, come, another, wish, united, tyrant, together, take, statement, rule, resolved