The Revolutionary War: The Cause Of The American Revolution
The American Revolution was fought for the grand causes of national rights, liberty, and economic control and resulted in freedom and unlimited trade. Like many revolutions, the Revolutionary War was an example of the outbreak of violence, which most often responds to heightened repression or extraordinary demands from the government against their people. The Revolutionary War was the first anti-colonial, democratic revolution in history. Americans insisted on representation, and, when the British denied it, they fought their colonizers. The patriots won and set up their own government, a republic. Thus, what initially undertook the securing of British American’s guarantees of local independence and individual rights equivalent to those enjoyed by Englishmen in the home islands, quickly became a struggle for political independence. The freedom and rights the patriots fought for and the economic control they purchased raises the question of, if the patriots had lost
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In addition to this, the British most likely would have punished the rebels by seizing their personal land and homes, similarly to how they seized the estates of Scottish nobles who supported a rebellion against British rule. Doing this would radically alter the power structure in American society because huge amounts of American land may have gone to Hessian mercenaries. If the colonists had lost the war, there would have essentially been no United States of America at all because a British victory in the Revolution would have prevented the colonists from settling in the
In addition to this, the British most likely would have punished the rebels by seizing their personal land and homes, similarly to how they seized the estates of Scottish nobles who supported a rebellion against British rule. Doing this would radically alter the power structure in American society because huge amounts of American land may have gone to Hessian mercenaries. If the colonists had lost the war, there would have essentially been no United States of America at all because a British victory in the Revolution would have prevented the colonists from settling in the