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A 5 page paper which examines how these habits or trends had been developed prior to 1750, and how they ultimately ‘embedded’ themselves in the Revolutionary War and the U.S. Constitution. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The American Revolution between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies may have officially begun in the mid-1770s, but the political, social, and economic trends that fanned the flames of independence
had been in place for years, having been developed prior to 1750. The simmering passions simply met their boiling point. In the years that followed the colonial victory,
a government was formed that was based on the established patterns that were embedded in the Declaration of Independence, the subsequent Revolution, and the U.S. Constitution. Since their earliest days,
the American colonies have always been extremely business oriented (Douglass 12). The colonists shared a belief that, "All men... should have an equal opportunity to make a profit" (Douglass
12). In fact, it was profit motive that was responsible for the establishment of the American colonies by the British in the first place (Douglass 12). The colonies
themselves were little more than a collective business endeavor and a highly prosperous one at that. Planters not only grew tobacco, but also purchased it from farmers and marketed
in through consignment at an additional tidy profit (Douglass 15). In addition, the planters were retail and wholesale merchants, building and operating "mills, tanneries, blacksmith shops, forges, and other
community services in connection with their plantation enterprises" (Douglass 16). Needless to say, well before 1750, the few were already reaping
the many colonial benefits of land and industry, and this led to the planters positively promoting land and real estate speculation. They controlled all of the money, and therefore
they could also control land and property values as well. Many of the colonial families were large and needed to increase their land holdings "to avoid dissipation of landed
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