Analyze The Causes And Consequences Of The American Revolution

The American Revolution was the first modern revolution. It can be traced to the year of 1763. It was marked in the finest history that the people fought for themselves or such as their independence for the popular sovereignty, rules of law, constitutional rights. The war brings significant battles and consequences such as the Seven Years’ War, the ultimate cost of stationing the troops in the colonies, and the British efforts to suppress American smuggling and resistance. The Revolutionary war stated when the British leaders began to tighten their reins on the colonists to get as much money for their new empire. The British thought the best to make money were to enact a land policy prohibiting settlement in the West lands as their British troops came than control trade. However, in order to
enact their land policy, they made attempts to gain money through acts such as the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Act. Furthermore, the tension between the Colonists and the British increased as the parliament passed the Coercive Acts and Continental Congress begin to take steps to gain independent. The British had the upper advantage in the war but their major key was their support from the loyalists and their trained army and navy. Correspondingly, The Lord Dunmore’s promise of freedom of slaves who joined the royal army withdrawn many white colonists, and were inspired by Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. However, The Colonists won to the downfall of the British; failure to commit to all-out war, failure of logistics, failure of communication between leading generals and failure to destroy Washington’s army. After the revolutionary War and all its consequences, the states adopted written constitutions.
One of the written constitution was the Articles of Confederation. After the Revolutionary War, the Articles of Confederation set up the structure of the U.S Government. The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. The federal government was extremely weak and this created many problems such as: No separation of powers – only unicameral legislature, weak central government – states had most power, Congress did not have the power to tax – this means they could not get their finances in order. Other problems were in order to change the Articles, all thirteen states had to approve of the changes. This made it essentially impossible to make any changes, for any major laws to pass they had to be approved by 9 or the 13 states which was difficult, Congress did not have the power to regulate commerce which caused competition between states. It also caused diplomatic issues when states refused to pay for goods their received from other
nations.