Revolutionary War: Radical Changes During The Revolutionary Revolution

To begin with, the big taxations started right after the French and Indian war, not during the Revolutionary War at all. All of the Intolerable Acts were starting to change people’s lives in the colonies, for a long time up until the war. The change was huge for the Americans, ” This radical change… ” Also, the ways the English had started to try and control the colonies, was unlike the freedom they had before. The colonists (especially in the colonies that were self-governing) were furious about having decisions made for them. They had to adapt to the way the English wanted to run them. This made them terribly angry, and this was when the riots started, and the Patriot leaders started to take charge. Additionally, the way the Patriots changed
peoples lives has to do with the part of the quote: ”…change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.” This means that the change of thought about America’s freedom was what got them their own country, not the war that they had to fight. Like Adams said, the way the people changed and took action, was the real Revolution.