The Revolutionary War

Taxes were not fair to the colonists. A tax is money that people pay to their government in return for service. One of the taxes is the sugar act. The sugar act taxed coffee and

In American history everyone believes that the American Revolution would begin in 1775. But many would argue that the American Revolution had started even earlier than that. As the American Revolution would not spring up overnight, but throughout a series of events that would build tension caused by different views on government, and conflicting interests between the British and their colonies on the western hemisphere.

The Act of 1764, also known as The Sugar Act, lowered the taxes on molasses but also it had more ways to enforce the tax. In addition to the tax on molasses they taxed things such as silks, wines, and potash. The Americans were outraged with this new law. The colonists did whatever they could to ignore this new law. The British passed the Quartering Act which basically said that the American colonists have to house and feed British forces who were serving in North America. This inflamed the

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.

The Patriots were successful in their bid for Independence with the help of good leadership, adaptive strategy and good weapons. All three of these things led to America winning the Revolutionary War.

The topic of revolution is extremely subjective. What may appear as an insurrection to some might not be as extreme to others. When talking about the American Revolutionary War, however, the answer is clear. While the War certainly brought about change within the United States, it wasn’t necessarily very revolutionary. The most important aspects of the colonies, such as ideas about government, various types of societal equality, slavery and freed blacks, and the rights of women remained for the most part, unaffected.

The American Revolution was undeniably the most pivotal time period in respect to United States History, but who was really to blame for initiating the conflict? While both the British politicians and American colonists shared the blame for the kindling of the revolution, one party was certainly more at fault than the other: the British. Through short-term causes of taxation and incommodious trade acts, and long-term causes of salutary neglect and involvement in the burdensome French & Indian War, the British politicians proved to ultimately be the most responsible for igniting the Revolutionary War.

The American Revolutionary War was a long hard fought war that lasted about 8 years. Many Countries were involved in the war, such as The United States, France, Great Britain, Spain, and The Dutch Republic. Not all countries actually fought but they provided either side with weapons and supplies to help them have a greater chance of winning the war. More than 70,000 people were killed during the great American Revolutionary War. The Americans were tired of the loyalist British taking advantage of them. They were tired of the new taxes that kept being created by the British. The Americans were tired of being pushed around, so they decided to do something about it. High Tensions eventually got between the two countries and they began to start a war, which was known as The American Revolutionary War. Before the war began, a great man implied, “One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedoms of one’s house, a man’s house is his castle”, informing everyone that the colonies should be freed from British control (Otis). The American Revolutionary war was a war started, so the 13 colonies of America could gain there independence from Great Britain. Thousands of soldiers were killed while many others were severely wounded. The American Revolutionary war was one of the greatest wars in American history, because it had many great battles, was led by some of the greatest leaders, and got the 13 colonies independence from Great Britain.

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.

During the years previous to the American Revolution, Great Britain increasingly asserted its dominance over the colonies. This assertive behavior caused tension between the colonies and Great Britain. Therefore, colonies debated the pros and cons of going to war with Great Britain in order to declare their independence. Increased British control led to revolution by the acts Great Britain forced upon colonists, colonists lack of representation, and Great Britain’s reaction to protests held by the colonists. Great Britain’s increased control led to the Revolution by the acts they forced upon colonists.

“No taxation without representation!” (Brinkley 119) This was the common cry for colonial America during the elimination of illegal sugar trade between the colonies, French and the Spanish West Indies. After the Seven Years War Britain was put in great debt. They started the Sugar Act in 1764. This Act allowed the British to tax the sugar in order to gain money back and pull them out of their debts from the war. The Sugar Act was put in place originally because of the demand of Rum which is made of molasses, a type of sugar. There was a lot of anger from the colonists against the British because they felt that their sugar was too expensive and not as good as the sugar they were smuggling from the French and West Indies. As time went on the British caught on and

In the mid 1700’s, uproars in the thirteen original colonies had led to a revolution that eventually caught the attention of the British Tyranny. Later, the thirteen colonies sought Independence which broke off all ties with the British. In the midst of the American revolution, colonists and the British proceeded in uproar against each other; in due course, leading to the taxation of colonists, a tyrant ruler, and loyalist standpoints which opposed the colonists’ wishes.

The Stamp Act and the Sugar Act were both attempts at raising money to minimize the debt but colonists saw it as direct challenge to their freedoms, eventually boycotting the items under taxation. This sense of frustration was clearly exemplified in the commonly used slogan “No taxation without representation”. Also, Britain wanted to go back to mercantilism so that they would benefit from trade with the colonies and foreign entities would not. The Navigation Acts, for example, closed the colonial ports to all other nations besides England and the colonies were not allowed to trade with other nations so that England would be the singular benefiting market to colonial resources. The colonists found ways around this act and it only succeeded in escalating bitterness for British mandates. Through boycotts and homespun movements the colonists tried to avoid the taxes but in the end of the day there was only one solution to ridding themselves of unfair duties, tariffs, levies - independence (Document G, H,

From the foundation of the colonies beginning with the founding of Jamestown until the beginning of the Revolutionary War, different regions of the eastern coast had different characteristics. Once established, the thirteen British colonies could be divided into three geographic areas: New England, Middle, and Southern. Each of these had specific economic, social, and political developments that were unique to the regions.

A motivating force behind the revolution was the American embrace of a political ideology called "republicanism", which was dominant in the colonies by 1775. The "country party" in Britain, whose critique of British government emphasized that corruption was to be feared, influenced American politicians. The commitment of most Americans to republican values and to their rights, helped bring about the American Revolution, as Britain was increasingly seen as hopelessly corrupt and hostile to American interests; it seemed to threaten to the established liberties that Americans enjoyed. The greatest threat to liberty was depicted as corruption. The colonists associated it with luxury and, especially, inherited aristocracy, which they condemned.