Personal Narrative: The American Revolution

In general, I would be a revolutionary because I would want freedom from England as much as my neighbors and I would want to be known as a Revolutionist living in the colonies. Even though, the American Revolution was known as “civil” war, a war that is fought between people of the same country (If you lived at the Time of the American Revolution, “n.d.”). In short, England ruled all the colonies located on the Atlantic Ocean which was known as the thirteen colonies consisting of two and half million people (If you lived at the Time of the American Revolution, “n.d.”). In fact, liked most settlers, the task of growing this new country into a profitable society took a lot of hard work and most of the settles were indentured servants selling their service for four to seven years, but in return they were looking
In general, the two sides tried to mediate their differences, but some member of Congress were strongly convinced that Independence is the only choice. The famous Benjamin Franklin was noted as giving the French as heads up that the colonies were seeking independence and he hoped the French would be able to supply the colonist with aid (The Declaration of Independence, 1776, “n.d.”). Eventually, in 1776, the Continental Congress stated that independence is the only course of action available to them and when the British Parliament prohibited trade with the colonies, the American Congress responded in April 1776 by opening colonial ports showing their Independence from England the Declaration of Independence, 1776, “n.d.”). Furthermore, majority of the immigrants came to New World to leave their old country because of political politics, religion freedom and financial gain and the thought of sending majority of your economic resources back to the country you left didn’t set well with most immigrants. In fact, in my research I learned that the colonist grew tired of following the British rules. England controlled trade and told people where they could