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The American Revolution impacted the change of the new country. People who came to the Newfoundland knew nothing better but to follow the British control. At first the colonists believed that the British were helping them, and they were pretty content with their lives. But soon after the British started raising taxes to help pay of their debts and the Americans realized that they don't like how the British are controlling them. The fight for independence changed the lives of Americans.
Women and slaves were two of the groups with little to no power before the Revolutionary War. By 1775 slavery was a common practice in American colonies. But after the war there was talk about slavery abolishment. In the areas that slavery was weakening, like New England, it was abolished, and in areas where Quakers lived there was no slavery because they opposed it. Also, in 1787 the Congress of Confederation passed the Northwest Ordinance. It was to show that the land north of the Ohio......

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