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The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North america joined together to break free of the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America.The American Revolution commenced a series of intellectual, political, and social shifts in early American society and government. Americans rejected the plutocracies of the inherited aristocracies in Europe at the time, contributing to the development of republicanism in the United States based on the Enlightenment understanding of liberalism. Among the significant results was the creation of a representative governmentresponsible to the will of the people.
USA REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT SUMMARY
Royal Madness
Why did I named it Royal Madness? It was named that way because the British crown imposed new taxes for getting refunds to pay military causes. The crown were only collecting taxes from the colonies and stopped to collect from Britain.
Three Laws were edicted:
The Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
1. The sugar Act:
Molasses were a sticky Cyrup that was the remain from the process of making sugar. The crown lowered the prices of the Molasses.
2. Stamp Act:
All written documents that involved, sales, deeds, and owning property documents should have the royal stamp to become legal if not the violators of this law would be punished with strong penalties.
3. Quartering Act: All citizens in the colonies had the obligation to give room and food to the soldiers who served the British Imperial Army.
Taxation Without Representation
People from the colonies were mad because the britishwere imposing taxes to the colonists and there was no colonial represantative so they were angry for that.
French and Indian War
They fought over the Ohio river valley.
George Washington commanded the British troops
and the French allied with the indians to defeat the british and it was called the 7 year war in Europe.
In the years from 1756-1757 the British were loosing, France destroyed forts of lake Ontario and lake George.
In 1758 British started winning when British cut off the French shipments so without resources coming from Europe to america the French started loosing the war
Boycotts
To control the protests 9 colonies sent delegates to the stamp act congress.
The colonies stopped to buy any goods that were from England, and made The Non-Importation agreement, that threatened British merchants.
Homespun was a form of protest from women for men to consider them important in the poilitical problems. Women will make from colthe their own clothes for not buying it from England.
In 1766 the Stamp Act was repealed by the parliament and eventually all the colonies had to obey the parliament.
Colonial Protests and Patriotic Leaders Emerge
Enlightment ideas reached America, such ideas from Baron of Montesquieu and John Loke.
Ideas like the natural rights: The right of Liberty, of Life and property.
The people who opposed British taxes were called Patriots. The sons of liberty emerged with Samuel Adams.
The sons of Liberty with a mob in August 1765 tarred and feathered a tax collector. Thomas Hutchinson governor of Boston denounced the riot and another mob destroyed his house.
Tax collectors were afraid of the son's of liberty and stopped collecting taxes and resign.
An Iconic Event in American History
In December 16, 1773
The Colony of Massachussetts, in the town of Boston protest radically against the British goverment. The cause was three shiploads with taxed tea that officials refused to return at Boston Harbor. The colonist disguised as Native Americans boarded the ships and destroyed the taxed tea.
British Army
The famous Redcoats fought during the revolutionary war to hold the colonies for the British crown. Being a highly disciplined army, and wearing the red uniform it caused great fear to their enemies. The redcoats were in every branch of the army from the infantery (Red coat musketeers), cavalry (King's life guard hussars), artillery (grenadiers) and to naval corps. The British soldiers who fought against the colonists during the American Revolution were called by many names in the colonies like the Regulars or the Kings Men and like in every culture abusive names like the Bloody Backs or the lobsters.
Continental Army
The continental army was formed when the revolutionary war erupted. Before them the colonies relied their fights against the British with irregular militias, because of this the U.S National Congress edicted a resolution to conform an regular army.
Once the Continental army was formed in May 10, 1775 local militias united with them and then they were commamded by General George Washington during the years of the war.
Declaring Independence to Motherland
In July 4, 1776 the British colonies in North America made 3 important decisions:
1st Declare independence from Britain.
2nd They chose a republican model for their new goverment.
3rd They confederated the 13 states as the United States of America.
Eventually the British would not accept the declare and would go to further conflict against the the Americans.
Lexington and Concord
By 1775 the British government stopped ignoring the events which were leading to the war of independence.
British started thinking about the colonist as a true threat and began taking actions to take the weapons and power the colonist had gotten.
In April of 1775 the english secretary of State Dartmouth ordered Lt. General Thomas Gage to arrest the leaders of the rebel uprising.
About 700 British Army regulars, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. Through effective intelligence gathering, Patriot colonials had received word weeks before the expedition that their supplies might be at risk, and had moved most of them to other locations. They also received details about British plans on the night before the battle, and were able to rapidly notify the area militias of the military movement.
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