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America 's New Tax Laws Essay

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The American Revolution happened between 1763-1783 and it happened because the colonists were appalled with Great Britain’s new tax laws. The revolution had begun to raise questions on slavery and equality. The main reason for the revolution seemed unjust and unfair to slaves since it mainly applied to white males and not to them. Then the market revolution in 1800-1840 and the anti-slavery movement in 1830s raised even more doubts for women as well as slaves regarding equality between genders and race. As time went by these ideas became more clear since slavery was vanishing from many other places except from the united states. The document “Letters in the Liberator” by Angelina Grimke is a powerful piece. The end of the revolution didn’t change the status of women. According to Eric Foner, “men took pride in qualities like independence and masculinity that distinguished them from women and still considered control over their families an element of freedom.” (Foner 242) Men thought of themselves as superior individuals and considered women to being submissive and inferior to them. During the making of the new republic the issues on inequality to genders had not yet been properly addressed because the founders had not considered that ordinary citizens would continue to be involved. As stated by Foner, “…time had not arrived for a broad assault on gender inequality, but discussion of women’s status helped to popularize the language of right in the new republic.” (Foner

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