Good day. My name is Mabel Miller, and I experienced countless struggles for power, living through the decade of the American Revolution. In the duration of the revolution, I was an unknowing adolescent living with my parents, a confused housewife, and at 28, a helping camp worker. Throughout these years, I have been recording many key events in my life within the Revolutionary War. If you want to learn more about my life, please read on.

In the American Revolution, while many things changed, many things continued throughout the entirety of the war. To look back to the beginning of this revolutionary time in America, few people had rights. At the time, only people with more money and more land could even begin to have power in any governmental systems or be allowed to have rights such as the right to education, working, or voting. When you hear the American Revolution, you likely think of a period of independence, a new world. While some prevailed, others – women, slaves, and Native Americans – hardly received anything better than before the war, despite their constant assistance in the war. To add on, while all those people in society didn’t improve their lives, the only people in power before and after the war were wealthy white men. Although there were women and Native Americans fighting during the war alongside the American soldiers, when it came to all major events such as the Signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention, only white men are taking part. In the group of the less privileged, none of them had voting rights while white men controlled all large decisions even after the war. However, while these things stayed the same for the entire period of the Revolutionary War, there also were some prominent changes made. For instance, this period was a time where America gained independence from the British monarchy, and created their own system of government that wasn’t there before. A large change from before and after the war was gaining a new leading figure, George Washington, the 1^st American president. While many wished to address their leader as “Your Excellency” or “Your Highness”, George Washington wanted to sense of monarchy after being under the British rule, and thereby took the name of “Mr. President”, a long-standing decision that is still upheld today. On another note, another significant alteration of the war was the new idea that birth did not determine your destined life. Before the war, America had a hierarchical system, where if you were born poor, then you would continue to live poor your entire life. However, the enforcement of the Declaration of Independence gave the opportunity for poorer men to rise in the ranks, following the famous excerpt: “We follow these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. One famous example of this occurrence was how Alexander Hamilton, a destitute child of poor immigrant parents. Nonetheless, his intelligent allowed him to rise to the top, as a founding father. Overall, there was a vast selection of events leading up to a new nation, and while some things stayed the same, the American Revolution was an key break though in the American nation’s history.