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The paradox of the revolutionary era is that despite the massive advantages provided by the geographic isolation and bountiful resources of the North American continent, the very arguments used to justify secession from the British Empire also undermined the legitimacy of any national government capable of overseeing such a far-flung population, or establishing uniform laws that knotted together the thirteen sovereign states and three or four distinct geographic and economic regions

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The Paradox is that while fighting for Freedom, the Southern colonies were also fighting to preserve the right for them to own slaves.

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both sides destroyed and slaughtered the natives tried to take their lands because they label them as savages ironic because one of those sides the patriots fought for freedom and equality.

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