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Why Did America Lose The Revolutionary War

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Let’s first imagine if America lost the revolutionary war. First, the colony in North America would have smaller territories with Mexico separated and Russia retaining Alaska. The Russians would not sell any territories of theirs to the enemy, which is the British empire. Therefore, Alaska would be owned by Russia. One of Britain’s allies was Spain so, it is highly plausible that Florida, California, Texas would all be owned by Spanish. Second, there would be less population as there won’t be mass emigration. Wanting more people to help a country grow would make sense for a new country who just declared their independence. But, the British would be less eager to do that. Britain would highly use the immigration policy like Australia’s where they offer immigration to people who would like to make …show more content…

They feel very patriotic especially when it's the fourth of July. Despite all the cons, America has become one of the leaders of the world. Therefore, clearly, it was the right move to fight for freedom against Britain. America achieved a lot of accomplishments as a free country and those accomplishments might not have happened if America were to lost the revolutionary war. For one, America is very diverse which contributed a lot to the creative ideas that the country had. Diversity means there’s a lot of people from different backgrounds and culture and that made them approach things in different ways. Many researchers have found that creativity is easily found in diversity. This is why America has contributed a lot of creative ideas for the world. America also strengthened the representative democracy system, also known as indirect democracy, which allows people to elect a representative to lead them. Before this, their only choices were a monarchy or direct democracy. And a lot of countries such as India, Cambodia, Germany, and Chile use this kind of system in their

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