The American Revolutionary War

The American Revolution was preceded in part by a series of British Parliament laws that regulated trade and taxes. Rumors from England that more taxes might follow encouraged some colonists to begin thinking about whether they really consented to taxes passed by a Parliament to which they elected no representatives. (1) This particular legislation of taxation caused tensions between colonists and local imperial officials, who readdressed the colonists concerns that the British Parliament would not address American complaints concerning the new laws. The unwillingness to respond to American demands for change by the British opened the doors to colonial argument that they were part of a corrupt and tyrannical empire in which their traditional liberties were at stake! This position eventually served as the foundation for the Declaration of Independence.

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.

From the period of 1754 to 1763, the British engaged in a war with the French within American territory. This war, fought due to both French and Native American hostilities, affected both the Americans view on the British and British treatment of their colonies. Ultimately, the French and Indian war lead to political, economic, and geographical changes for the American colonists and Great Britain.

When the French and Indian War, the Seven Years War, officially came to an end with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. North America had divided between the British and Spanish. Britain had driven the French up north to Canada, and extended their claims of land west to the Mississippi River. It seemed like the British lands that they owned in North America were more secure than ever, but they were having some problems with the American colonies.

The Battle of Yorktown was one of the most significant battles of the American Revolution. Not only was it a major battle that helped end the war but also showed the power of the Continental Army’s field artillery. The battle was a major turning point in establishing the freedom of the United States of America and was the last major battle of the war. The Continental and French forces moved to Yorktown on 28 September 1781, however the first shot was not fired until 9 October of 1781. It was roughly ten days of continuous artillery fire that helped demoralize the British forces, leading to their surrender on 19 October 1781.

The battle of Trenton and Princeton began to erupt in the same year of the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War had started because the Americans wanted the same rights the as the British citizens had. The British refused to give Americans the same rights because they (British) didn’t think the Americans shouldn’t be represented as a part of the British Parliament, instead their (British) minds were more focused on building revenue. The British had ignored the Americans demands in which the British thought the Americans demands were a cause of outrage. There were so many different wars that had erupted during the Revolutionary War. The battle between Trenton

The war on Independence, known as the Revolutionary War, dramatically changed American life. Not only did it expand upon religious freedom, the rights to vote, and expand the number of legislative seats, to men of lesser property, but also it changed the daily lives of many colonists by fighting for natural rights, which were detained over the years. The Right of “Free Suffrage” addressed the idea that a man, whose personal liberty and rights are taken from him, is an enslaved man, even if society defines him as free. “Every member of this state, who lends his aid to the support of it, has an equal claim to all the privileges, liberties, and immunities with every [one] of his fellow countrymen; circumstances which are essential to the existence of a free state, and inseparable from the exercise and operation of a free people…No power in the state can legally diminish this equal right, either by reducing the number of those privileges to which the whole community is justly entitled, or by imparting to men, or particular societies of men, such degrees less free or more subservient to the purpose of others, than the equal right of freedom can allow. If these be not the innate rights and privileges of the people, they are not free. “ (“Voices of Freedom” 110) The passage continues to state that regardless of a mans wealth or position of power, he still has rights to his personal liberty and rights to his earnings and is in danger of being injured by the government. Therefore, to

During the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the European powers engaged in battles in both the European and North American continents. Part of this struggle was for the control of territory and trade in the Ohio Territory through the backcountry lands of the Eastern Seaboard and down into the Mississippi River Valley region. Consequently, some of the North American Indian tribes in these areas affiliated themselves with either the French or British troops. The relatively small population of the French relied on the manpower of their Indian allies in warfare. Even though the British had a larger population, they too depended on the Indians for support during battles. This intense competition for an alliance with different Indian tribes led to a complex relationship between the Indians and Europeans. The Indians aligned themselves with allies based on economic potentials and they also manipulated the rivalry between the Europeans, but by the beginning of the Revolutionary War the Indians were resentful of the struggles that arose from their involvement in the Imperial Wars.

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.

The British imperial officials ' assertion of control over the colonies began to escalate rapidly beginning in the late 1760s all the way up until the full escalation of the Revolutionary War in the spring of 1776. The regulations were set in place by parliament, and the king would later continue to place restraints on the people of the colonies. The standing army that was sent to Boston due to the unrest not only worried the general public, but also ratcheted up the animosity even more. After the Townshend duties were repealed, some colonists had a slight feeling relations could be improving, yet they were soon informed that the Tea Act would be maintained. If the Bostonians weren’t already outraged enough, this act sent them over the edge, so they did the same with the tea. A final attempt at controlling the colonies with diplomacy before the king declared the colonies to be in rebellion was the Coercive Acts. These “Intolerable” Acts were 4 acts directed towards Massachusetts to try and put them in line as well as send a message to the other colonies to fall in line. All of these decisions made by parliament were designed to quell the increasing unruliness of the colonies, however all they did was create more strife for the colonists to rally against.

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.

“These are the times that try men’s souls.” Thomas Paine said this during the times leading up to the Revolutionary War. These times include: Navigation Act, French and Indian War, Sugar Act, The stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Townsend Act, The Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts. All of these events are important in leading to the Revolutionary War. This essay will go into detail about the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. Starting with, the Navigation Act. The Navigation Act was the first event leading up to the Revolutionary War. The Navigation Act is where British parliament passed a series of navigation acts. These navigation acts limited colonial trade by using the system of mercantilism. This also forbade the

The American Revolution (1775-1783) is otherwise called the U.S. War of Independence. The contention emerged from growing pressures between Great Britain's thirteen North American states and the pioneer government, which spoke to the British crown. For over ten years before the flare-up of the American Revolution in 1775, strains had been working amongst pilgrims and the British powers. Endeavors by the British government to raise income by burdening the states met with warmed dissent among numerous pilgrims, who disliked their absence of representation in Parliament and requested the same rights. Provincial resistance prompted viciousness in 1770, when British fighters opened flame on a swarm of pioneers. After December 1773, when a band of