American Revolution Dbq Essay

The American Revolution wasn’t so revolutionary after all. Some say The Revolution assisted the extinction of slavery,it brought equality or fairness upon the wealthy and poor, and that it also helped the movement of women's rights. The American Revolution didn’t quite assist to the extinction of slavery. In document 5 you can see on the map how majority of the southern colonies or states didn’t abolish slavery till 1865.Basically it took about eight decades to abolish slavery itself but not the thought of it. In document6 a young well educated African American man makes a speech about how he doesn’t see a future for his-self . Now if the British actually won the Revolution, slavery would of been abolished about three decades earlier because in Britain they eradicated slavery in 1833 . If the revolution was a great crucible, why did it take such a long time to exterminate this disgusting view and treatment upon African Americans.They may be free and there's a sense of equality but is there equity?

Two of the men are dressed in suits and white powdered wigs, while one of the gentleman is barefoot. His clothes and body look as if unkept. The document is supposed to represent the two different classes coexisting, but it shows just how they may notice each other now and have a neutral relationship but they don’t help one another.The rich get richer, the poorer get poorer. American Revolution hindered these social classes not help them,In document four lys the economic status of the representatives in the states. It reads that after the revolution twentyeight percent of the wealthy had representation while the poor had zero percent by 1785.In the arcticle Poverty in the United State: Snapshot it states, “One out of seven people in the USA are living in