The American Revolution And American War Of Independence

The American Revolution or the American War of Independence was one of the most remarkable wars in the history of the world. The motives behind the war can be interestingly explained by Zinn from the chapter Tyranny Is Tyranny in A People’s History of The United States: 1â€Å"Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. 2They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from favorites of the British Empire† (Zinn). Indeed, the American Revolution left a significant impact on early American society and government in terms of social, political, and†¦show more content†¦We are taught by the modern-day history books to revere our Founders as superhuman leaders of a superior generation. Yet in fact, on the opposite, they were not perfect. They were also problematic and thus do not deserve their current level of popularity. 4â€Å"Shouldn t we applaud the Founders’ restored popularity? Yes - but like anything else, it can be taken too far† (H. W. Brands). Pondering over this question, we take the shortcomings of the Founders into consideration. In scrutinizing the Declaration and the Constitution, â€Å"two grave sins of omission hung ominously over the country: the Founders failure to deal with slavery, and their failure to specify whether sovereignty lay with the states or with the nation† (H. W. Brands). The intentional ignorance of slavery in the documents which represent American history makes us look over the Founders perspectives. â€Å"For one thing, challenging slavery s validity within those documents was completely irrational, seeing as slavery was a critical part of culture both in America, and in Europe. The majority of the Founders simply didn t see anything wrong with it; or if they did, they did not express it. A nother reason that they didn t mention slavery is because it would do more harm than good. If they openly condemned slavery, they would