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Cause And Effect Of The American Revolution

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The Causes and Effects of the American Revolution

There were many causes that ignited the desire for independence and started the American Revolution. The French and Indian War had a tremendous impact on the Americans including the taxation of the American, by the British, to recoup monetary losses from the war. Taxes such as the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and a Tea Tax caused rebellion among the Colonists. One of the most prolific stands against the establishment would have the Colonists from Boston, Massachusetts rebel against the Redcoats who fired into a crowd and murdered for Bostonians with the Boston Tea Party; an event where the angry people of Boston, known as the Sons of Liberty, dressed up as Indians to gain access to the British East India Company ships: The Beaver, The Dartmouth, and The Eleanor. In protest of the Tea Tax, after gaining access onboard, the party goers would proceed to dump all the ships’ tea cargo into the Boston Harbor.

The results of the American Revolution were just as extraordinary as the what began the conflict in the first place. “The American Revolution had a demonstration effect on other Atlantic societies; this led to writers and thinkers in France, Haiti, and Latin America to use this as a model for their own political struggles” (Acrobatiq.2014). The American values of the newly birthed nation concentrated on middle-class values, a snub to the conservative views of old Europe, and promoted enterprise, technology, and the nation over popular culture. Even though the colonists fought to create new formed states, the same elites would seem to remain in charge. The bravery of the rebellion fighting for independence during the American Revolution brought about monumental documents that would not only change America, they would change the world. The Declaration of Independence was a document created by the great leaders of our nation to proclaim to the world why the nation was breaking away from the British rule and was followed up by the Treaty of Paris which upon ratification ended the American Revolution after the surrender of the British in 1783.

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