The American Revolution occurred between the years of 1775 and 1783. It was the colonists’ way of fighting for their independence from Britain. It took several years and a variety of events to cause the colonists to fight for their independence. These events include the French and Indian war‚ Taxes and laws‚ protests in Boston‚ The Intolerable Acts and the Battle between Lexington and Concord. The French and Indian War took place between the years 1754 and 1763. It was a war fought between American
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The American Revolution was an extremely important event that helped shape the modern world‚ however‚ it was not a true revolution. According to Richard Price‚ a British Unitarian minister‚ "A true social revolution destroys the institutional foundations of the old order and transfers power from a ruling elite to new social groups." (Digital History ID 3222) During the 1700’s‚ the American colonies had already been engaging in a form of self-government in their localities‚ which they largely fashioned
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The American Revolution is one of the bigger events that take place throughout the history of the United States. There was a lot of political‚ social‚ and economic change that took place because of the war‚ during and after. The revolution led to some major changes in the way people lived their lives. It played a big role in developing the United States into what it is today. Even though the American Revolution wasn’t a great social revolution it was still a huge moment in history of the United States
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Many events led the American Colonies to join together and fight for independence from Britain. It wasn’t economic disparity and it wasn’t that the king was a belligerent leader. The British found out that they were not willing to pay England back for taking care of their own colonies in the New World. Geographical distance between England and the New World played a great deal into the problems that they were having. It took days and months just to send or even receive a message‚ they didn’t
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Social Attitudes towards the Causes of the American Revolution A revolution is simply described as people overthrowing the government and replacing it with another‚ in the most common research source- Wikipedia. The American Revolution is by far‚ the most important historical event of the American history and a beginning of country of the United States. What caused American colonists to overthrow the differences of social classes and the need to break away from the English government and radical
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A revolution of most any nation is going to have significant social impacts on the whole nation. The effect that the American Revolution made on the nation though was determined by how significant the desire for freedom was. It should also be taken into account how important the philosophies and beliefs of the revolutionists were leading up to the American Revolution. Esmond Wright could not have said it better himself when he wrote that “[the American Revolution] is the central event in American
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Document 1 These excerpts are from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson. Dickinson was a Pennsylvania political leader who served in the Stamp Act Congress of 1765. Later in his career‚ he served in the Continental Congress‚ and later still‚ in the Constitutional Convention. In the following statement‚ Dickinson condemned some of the new taxes being imposed by Parliament. There is another late act of parliament‚ which appears to me to be unconstitutional‚ and ... destructive to
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It basically taxed legal papers‚ magazines‚ newspapers‚ and other documents in the colonies. This made the colonists feel used by the British and became the cause of the severe resentment that the colonies would begin to feel towards the British(Doc C). Resentment or no resentment‚ the parliament issued more acts in hopes of solving their economic crisis (debts). The Quartering act of 1765 was a way for parliament
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A1. The causes of the American Revolution were imposed taxes‚ taxation without representation‚ and the King implementing the Intolerable act. After the French and Indian War the British government lost a lot of money. So their way of collecting money was to impose taxes on the American colonists. These taxes included a tea tax‚ which was a tax on tea that was imported to America. With no representation in Britain the American colonist did not have a say in these taxes on goods‚ which had always been
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Causes of the American Revolution The American Revolution was caused by the colonists disagreeing with the British. The things that the british and colonists disagreed on were the Proclamation of 1763. One of the many things that the colonists thought needs changed is how the colonies approach war‚ which is why the political cartoon of a snake was made. The stamp act taxed most goods in the colonies. The Quartering Act angered colonists‚ and strengthened distrust between the colonists and the british
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