The American Revolution: The Formation Of The 13 Colonies

There was a war fought between the original thirteen colonies and Great Britain around April in 1775. This war was known as The American Revolution and although war was pretty common back then but, this was a different kind of war. The thirteen colonies that were rebelling against their mother country were fighting to become a country where every human has the freedom to do and say what they wanted. Also, they had many new ideas for running a country that many countries had never thought of or that they did not want. These ways of running government had never been tried before and were huge changes to how things were done back then. The American Revolution would end up not only changing the thirteen colonies into America, but it also changed

Anglicization of the Britain’s American colonies was a big event for the course of not only American or British history, but world history. The colonists adopting many British ways and becoming very patriotic towards the “mother country” had a large effect on the events that unfolded in the late 18th century. While it is true that the American colonists were incredibly British during the beginning to the mid-18th century, the colonies had been around long enough to develop their own culture and way of doing things. The series of events and acts that were imposed on the colonists post French and Indian War got the ball rolling on what came to be known as the American Revolution. The colonists were so fed up with the way in which the British were tightening their hold on the colonies to the point where they were driven to rebellion. The combination of British and underlying American ideals in the pre-revolution era were a necessarily pre-requisite and important component of what would become the American Revolution.

Between 1770 and 1776, resistance to imperial change turned into a full-on revolution. The American Revolution, also known as the Revolutionary War, was a time of revolting and political uprising, in which the 13 colonies separated from the British Empire, forming the independent nation known as the United States of America. Though the American Revolution began because the colonies wanted independence from Britain, many important historical events and revolts also lead to the tensions and resistance to what resulted in freedom and independence for the colonies from British rule. Events such as the Stamp and Sugar Acts, the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, and the Continental Congress led to expanding tensions and soon to the outbreak of the American Revolution.

For many years America has been under the British rule with egregious taxes and an abundance of rules that were difficult for any man to follow. With the British taking charge of the Colonists they began to think of ways to rebel and oppose the British. They started with the Boston Tea Party; a historical event that changed the colonies forever. Patrick Henry gave a speech to the delegates using persuasive elements such as ethos, logos, and pathos, to push these men into a war against the british to one day be a free country.

Intolerable (Coercive) Acts was passed because of the tea boycotting that the colonists were doing. As a result of boycotting, you were, "...sentenced to the flames, and executed by the hands of the common hangman." (Document7C3) This was a harsh punishment to the colonists; however, the government could not tolerate the boycotting. It was a vicious cycle; the taxes on tea would rise, then the colonists would boycott, and after the boycotters would face death, the cycle

The Intolerable acts were a set of Acts that were set to punish the colonists and for the British to regain STRICT control over the colonists. The Intolerable Act were Acts that the colonists just could NOT telerate. The Acts part of the set were the Boston Port Act, Massachussetts Government Act, Administraition of Justice Act, and the Quebec Act, out of many. The Boston Port Act was caused from the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Port Act made it so no one could enter or exit the the harbor until all of the money spent on the tea thrown overboard was acheived. Many people lost their jobs or became poor because of this. Another Intolerable Act was the massachussetts Government Act. This Act revoked the charter of 1691, which then made Massachussetts a crown colony. The next Intolerable Act was the Administraition of Justice Act. The Administraition of Justice Act made it so that British officials who have been charged for capital offences could go to England or another country for trial. Lastly, the Quebec Act. The Quebec Act removed all the fur trades and territory from Mississipi-Ohio

In order for the British to make money, they decided to raise taxes on the colonies and this angered them. The British placed unfair taxes on every day goods like sugar and in order to fight the British, the colonists boycotted the sugar. The Quartering Act was placed on the colonists and British soldiers were to stay in a colonist’s home and the family would provide for the soldier and ended up spending more money on British goods. The colonists thought this was unfair but they could not refuse, they had no choice. The colonists decided to rebel in little ways like not buy enough provisions for the soldiers but the soldiers soon caught on and there were stricter rules put in place.

On account of King George’s tyranny and the complete lack of representation within the British Parliament, the American colonists were justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain.

There are many different views on how the American Revolution came to be and how it actually was. One way is that the colonists that had money and were known as the elite were trying to preserve their power from the British and this is what caused the revolutionary war. Then on the other hand before the revolutionary war occurred when the colonists were being over controlled by the British, then in result of the American Revolution the colonists were able to win against the British and become stronger, more united, and have the type government they wanted. As described in Gordon S. Wood’s essay Radical Possibilities of the American Revolution, the colonists only wanted to be free from the control of the British and the only way they could accomplish that was to have a war with Britain to show that they could hold their own.

The American Revolution which took place from 1765 to 1783 was a direct result of the colonists’ anger and displeasure towards Britain. Colonists rejected the British monarchy and overthrew their aristocratic government, forming the United States of America. Essentially, the 13 colonies organized together because they rejected the authority of Britain and the country’s ability to levy taxes and impose unjust laws. Protests began to escalate as the colonists took part in the Boston Tea Party in which they destroyed consignments of tea from the East India Company. Consequently, the Intolerable Acts were imposed by the British, and the colonists responded by forming an alternative government to stage their resistance. The war was finally set in

Emma Baubly United States History 9/17/14 Period 2 There is lot of controversy between whether or not The American Revolution had a significant enough of a movement from the British tyrany to American independence. The American Revolution, between 1775 and 1783, was a movement vital to the creation of the United States; however, many would disagree about the extent to which it was revolutionary. The American Revolution was revolutionary to the extent that it changed social expectations and property rights of the country; however, the economic state the colonies were in was not a revolutionary change. One can observe the little changes that were made to the economic conditions prior to and post American Revolution. From the lack of sufficient change to the economic conditions, it is clear that The American Revolution was not an economic revolution but rather an alteration of whom was giving power to the rich.

The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to repeal the Intolerable Acts; in 1775 the Second was held to organize the Continental army. Eventually, Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence to send to George III, which began the

Beginning in 1763, the Americans had a long road of aggravation ahead of them as laws limiting their control were established by Britain. The French and Indian War caused a need for regulations due to the debt Britain accumulated and tensions between Indians and colonists. However, the colonies had no control over the regulations imposed on them. Britain restricted their territories, surrounded them with British soldiers, and continued to escalate the regulations. Eventually, the Americans rebelled in response to these actions. In the late 18th century, Britain’s unrelenting control over the American colonies was the primary cause of the American Revolution.

King George III and many British people were angry at the Boston Colonists. To punish the colonies and the colonists, the British Parliament began working on the Intolerable Acts. There were 5 laws in total, and each law punished the colonists in a different way. Each law had to be passed and they were all passed on different days.

The Intolerable Acts were a set of British Laws passed by Parliament in 1774. Four of the laws passed were created to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. The first act closed the port of Boston, the second act put an end to the Massachusetts Constitution, the third act forced all trials in Massachusetts to be held in Britain, and the fourth act forced colonists to feed and shelter British soldiers. The fifth act was the only law not created to punish Massachusetts. Instead, it extended the province of Quebec, which was run completely under British rule.