Revolutionary War

We are a class society from the beginning. America started off as a class society of rich and poor, people with enormous grants of land and people with no land. There was class conflict. So when you look at the Revolutionary War you have to look at it in terms of class.

There were mutinies in the American Revolutionary Army by the privates against the officers. The officers were getting fine clothes, good food and high pay. The privates had no shoes and bad clothes and they weren't getting paid. Thousands mutinied.

So who actually benefited from the Revolutionary War? Not the Indians, since the Proclamation Line was no longer in existence. The Proclamation Line said that you could not go westward into Indian territory. When Britain was defeated in the Revolutionary War, that line was eliminated, and now the way was open for the colonists to move westward across the continent, which they did for the next 100 years, committing massacres and making sure that they destroyed Indian civilization. Did blacks benefit from the American Revolution? Slavery was there before and slavery was there after. Not only that, we wrote slavery into the Constitution. We legitimized it.

The war did create some advantages for the economy. British limitations on American trade were no longer in place. This allowed the marine merchant and manufacturing to mature unchecked. With the Proclamation Line no longer in existence, agriculture could grow and spread into even more fertile territory. Though the war did some serious damage to the country's fledgling economy in some ways, it did, in fact, bolster it in other ways. Women were affected with property rights moved a little bit more within reach. As the men left it allowed women to run the farm, home or business.

It was not all the common people getting together to fight against England. They had a very hard time assembling an army. They took poor people and promised them land. They browbeat people and they inspired people with the Declaration of Independence. When they wrote the Constitution they were more concerned with the property than life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The American Revolution was not a simple affair of all of us against all of them. The American Revolution was the outcome of ideas and events that happened over a period of time. Once a historical event has taken place, it becomes hard to imagine that you could have achieved a result some other way.

Works Citied

http:://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/06-8
http://www.revolutionalywar2.tripod.com/id6.html