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How Did Social Class Contribute To The American Revolution

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The social classes throughout the revolution experienced many disorders such as the peninsulares were the highest and ruled against all and the lower classes got poorly treated. The economic, political, and social classes all contributed to the revolution in the western hemisphere and has created multiple conflicts between the social, political, and economics. This essay will include how the economic, political, and social classes all contributed to the revolution and how each point will have conflict with each one. The economic tensions really contributed to the revolution because of poor pay to each social class. The pay to each class of the “pyramid social class” was poor; the Natives and enslaved blacks were paid practically nothing. Slavery back then was mainly focused on free labor and not paid wages. Also, the white owners were greedy and wanted more slaves and money to be at the top. The Mestizos were rarely wealthy, but morley paid minimum and normal because they considered the next upper class but not. Mestizos tended to belong to skilled occupations, lived in Spanish-style housing, and adopted Hispanic dress, which changed them from natives and enslaved blacks. The Mestizos were considered a normal person to the upper classes. The Creoles were …show more content…

For instance the political tensions made Creoles feel politically inferior to the peninsulares. The peninsulares had more political power over the rest of the social class and had more general power over them as well. Thomas Paine influenced independence. It was from his pamphlet Common Sense, which advocated the colonies' independence and was widely distributed throughout the colonies. There were many reasons why the colonies wanted independence. They wanted independence because of unwanted taxes, abolition and slavery, Piracy and impressment, etc. The political power was very unevenly distributed and it had a big and bad impact on the

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