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Essay on The American Revolution Was a Real Revolution

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The American Revolution was definitely revolutionary. The people broke free from Britain and gained independence. Only one third of the colonist enthusiastically supported the revolution. The colonist were unhappy and being treated terribly by their motherland and trouble started to brew. The thirteen colonies that became the United States of America were originally colonies of Great Britain. By the time the American Revolution took place, the citizens of these colonies were beginning to get tired of the British rule. Rebellion and discontent were rampant. The main reason the colonies started rebelling against "mother England" was the taxation issue. The colonies debated England’s legal power to tax them and they did not wish to …show more content…

The citizens of the middle colonies were especially unenthusiastic about the revolution. Among those that did support a change, not everyone that joined the movement favored violence. Quakers and members of other religions, as well as many merchants from the middle colonies, and some discontented farmers and frontiersmen from southern colonies opposed the use of violence, and instead favored discussion and compromise as the best solution. The patriots were able to gain a great deal of support for a violent revolution from the less well to do, from many of the professional class, especially lawyers, some of the great planters and a number of merchants. Support for the revolution increased when it became clear that King George III had no intentions of backing down. The Revolutionary War erupted on April 19, 1775. The reason the British and the Americans resorted to using arms after a decade of fighting verbally over the rights of the British subjects in the colonies was because both sides had finally became convinced that force alone couldn’t decide the issues that divided them and war broke out and didn’t end until 1783. The American Revolution did a lot more than change the method of governance. After the war the spirit of equality weakened old habits of difference. The new political opportunities offered by the creation of state government led more

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