America Thanks to the Revolution

America has become what it is today thanks to the American Revolution. This event is what made America rise from shadowed place that it had been under the King's rule.The Revolution changed American society by giving the people a voice, political unity and the Supreme Law of the Land, the economic prosperity that this country now enjoys, and finally it gave us an "American" identity. If it wasn't for this event, America would still be submitted to the british empire.

When the war ended in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris and American independence was recognized, and the Articles of Confederation, written by John Dickinson, were ratified, a new nation was born. But America still had much to learn since, the unicameral legislature they had, called the Second Continental Congress and later the Confederation Congress was too inefficient and unwieldy to govern effectively. The congress had no independent income and no authority to compel the states to accept its rulings. But not everything in this Articles was defective. In 1787, the Articles of Confederation passed the Northwest Ordinance; this created the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States. Abolished slavery(under the fugitive slave law to not create discontent with the southern regions)[Doc H]. Set up procedures for the territories to be admitted as states, offered freedom of religion and trial by jury. However, after Shay's Rebellion from 1786 to 1787, there was a lack of institutional response to the uprising since the Articles couldn't impose tax, thus not being able to create an army to stop the rebellion. This hastened revision of the Articles of Confederation and in May 17, 1787, men representing all the states but Rhode Island, united in Philadelphia to start deliberations. James Madison, known as the Father of the Constitution, introduced the Virginia and New Jersey Plans on May 29, 1787 with his colleague Edmund Randolph. This plan provided for a two-house legislature with proportional representatives in both houses,an executive elected by Congress, a national judiciary, and a congressional veto power over state laws. This went greatly into effect thanks to the principle of checks and balances. If this had been adopted, the state power would be greatly diminished. The final document still showed somehow the Virginia plan, but it made the national government less powerful than what Madison and Randolph wanted. The last session of the convention was on Sept. 17, 1787. After this, a few ratifications such as adding the U.S. Bill of Rights, to protect individual citizens from the powers of the Federal government, the U.S. Constitution was passed on 1789. We owe the fact of going from living under the ruling of the king, to forming a new republic to the American Revolution.

One of the major ignitors towards the American Revolution, was the unfair taxation that had been given to the colonists by