AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
American Revolution refers to a colonial revolt that happened between the years 1765 and 1783. The thirteen colonies’ American Patriots won independence from the Great Britain, thus becoming the United States of America. The Americans defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775- 1783) with the help of France and others.
It took place between the years 1765 and 1783. Its location was in the thirteen colonies. The participants of this revolution were the Colonists in British America. Some of the outcomes from this revolution included:
Members of the American colonial society proposed the position of “no taxation without representation”, beginning with the Stamp Act congress in the year 1765. They rejected the British Parliament’s authority to tax them due to the fact that they did not have members in the governing body. There was a steady escalation of protests to the 1770’s Boston Massacre as well as the 1772’s burning of the Gaspee in Rhode islands. This was followed by the 1773’s Boston Tea Party in December, during which a consignment of taxed tea was destroyed by the patriots. The response of the British was closing Boston Harbor; this was followed by a series of legislative acts that rescinded the rights of self-government of Massachusetts Bay Colony effectively. This resulted to other colonies rallying behind Massachusetts. In the late 1774, the Patriots put up their own alternative government for purposes of providing better coordination in their resistance efforts against the Great Britain. Other colonists preferred remaining aligned to the Crown and they were referred to as the Tories or Loyalists.
Tensions turned into battle between the British regulars and the Patriot militia when the army of the king tried to capture and destroy supplies of the colonial military at Concord and Lexington on April 19, 1775. This conflict later turned into a global war, where the patriots (and later their Spanish, dutch and French allies) fought the British as well as the loyalists in what became to be referred to as the American Revolutionary War. Each and every one of the 13 colonies formed a Provincial Congress that was responsible for assuming power from the colonial government as well as suppressing Loyalism. Under the leadership of George Washington, they went ahead to build a continental army.
The patriot leadership administered the political philosophies of republicanism and liberalism to reject aristocracy and monarchy, and they proclaimed that all men are equal. The redcoats were forced out of Boston by the Continental Army in March 1776. However, the British captured New York and its harbor that summer. France later entered the war to support the United States with a very large navy and army that threatened Britain.
Some of the significant results of the revolution was the United States Constitution creation. This led to the establishment of a strong federal national government including a national judiciary, a bicameral congress representing the different states in the senate and an executive. Another result of the revolution was the migration of about 60,000 Loyalists to other territories of the British, especially British North America (Canada).
