How The American Revolution Changed American History
Austin Roman
Ms. Callahan/ Mr. Hands
American Studies
October 1, 2014 In the American Revolution the fight for independence people originally thought that the British were the bad ones. The ones that didn’t give any other option but to have war. That’s actually true, the British started all this through the French and Indian war, Boston massacre, and the Boston tea party. Our great nation was forever changed when these acts happened. To begin with, the French and Indian war had started a lot of the hatred between the American colonies and the British. When the war had ended the British had felt the American colonies was in dept. to over a million moneys of the currency of the time. When the British started the taxing the colonies the citizens had felt unfair with the taxation and had started not paying back. After a while the colonies had enough and had started numerous riots. Next, the colonies had made numerous riots due to the unfairness of the taxation from the dept. of the French and Indian war. One of the famous riots probably everyone that’s an American citizen knows which is the Boston massacre. What happened that day had changed American history forever. It was in the winter when a group of men had started a riot in the city of …show more content…
Boston. They were throwing snowballs to the British soldiers that were nearby. After a while things started getting more and more aggressive which had led to the British soldiers there that day to fire there muskets into a crowd of angry citizens. Four men died that day, one of them was a free African American who we now mention in classrooms all over the U.S. After that, John Adams known as the second president of the U.S had defended the British people who fired upon the crowd.
Not long after the colonist strike back after the Boston massacre towards the British’s tea. Everyone in the U.S had learned or is now learning about the Boston tea party. The sons of liberty which is a revolution group that basically led the charge by the colonist had found out the British were bringing a shipment of their finest tea to sell when the colonist had been selling tea as well. So the colonist had made one of the strongest messages to the British by boarding the harbored ship and dumping the tea. They were dressed as Indians to make it same as such when everyone knew what really was going
on. In conclusion even though the British were very wrong to tax the colonist by a lot of money and were being unfair when obtaining the money even though Americans were very brutal and harsh when reacting. Then again the British did shoot and kill four people during the Boston massacre but was doing it out of nervous actions and survival due to the way the colonist were acting. The Americans were no doubt very brutal but they had their reasons.
Ms. Callahan/ Mr. Hands
American Studies
October 1, 2014 In the American Revolution the fight for independence people originally thought that the British were the bad ones. The ones that didn’t give any other option but to have war. That’s actually true, the British started all this through the French and Indian war, Boston massacre, and the Boston tea party. Our great nation was forever changed when these acts happened. To begin with, the French and Indian war had started a lot of the hatred between the American colonies and the British. When the war had ended the British had felt the American colonies was in dept. to over a million moneys of the currency of the time. When the British started the taxing the colonies the citizens had felt unfair with the taxation and had started not paying back. After a while the colonies had enough and had started numerous riots. Next, the colonies had made numerous riots due to the unfairness of the taxation from the dept. of the French and Indian war. One of the famous riots probably everyone that’s an American citizen knows which is the Boston massacre. What happened that day had changed American history forever. It was in the winter when a group of men had started a riot in the city of …show more content…
Boston. They were throwing snowballs to the British soldiers that were nearby. After a while things started getting more and more aggressive which had led to the British soldiers there that day to fire there muskets into a crowd of angry citizens. Four men died that day, one of them was a free African American who we now mention in classrooms all over the U.S. After that, John Adams known as the second president of the U.S had defended the British people who fired upon the crowd.
Not long after the colonist strike back after the Boston massacre towards the British’s tea. Everyone in the U.S had learned or is now learning about the Boston tea party. The sons of liberty which is a revolution group that basically led the charge by the colonist had found out the British were bringing a shipment of their finest tea to sell when the colonist had been selling tea as well. So the colonist had made one of the strongest messages to the British by boarding the harbored ship and dumping the tea. They were dressed as Indians to make it same as such when everyone knew what really was going
on. In conclusion even though the British were very wrong to tax the colonist by a lot of money and were being unfair when obtaining the money even though Americans were very brutal and harsh when reacting. Then again the British did shoot and kill four people during the Boston massacre but was doing it out of nervous actions and survival due to the way the colonist were acting. The Americans were no doubt very brutal but they had their reasons.