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TheBlackAdder

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19. It's like how Native Americans taught Founding Fathers ideas of a Democratic Republic.
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 11:32 AM
Jul 2016

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They taught the Europeaners how to grow and harvest crops and survive in North America.

How were they repaid?


As their land was being slowly stolen, the King issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which fenced property west of the of the Appalachia as Indian land bound by Indian law, and east as being for the colonies bound by Western law.

While the main white-washed exclude for the Declaration of Independence is cited as being taxation, the real driver was pressure placed on the citizens to encroach of Indian land, and the only way they could do that was to violate the king's orders, which required independence.


You'll often hear how the Democratic Republic was a new idea, that's why. They took the principles that the Native Americans used to maintain peace and trace between the various indian nations. The colonists met with Indians and were taught this form os state government.


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