The American Revolution had been revolutionary. More political changes were made rather than social and economic changes. For example after the American Revolution women gained the same rights as men including the right to vote. The American Revolution was not a great social revolution. A true social revolution destroys the institutional foundations of the old order and transfers power from ruling elite to new social groups. The American Revolution did create the United States. A monarchial society had been transformed. The revolution gave new political process. It gave new political significance to the middling elements in society.…
The period 1750 to 1776 is often referred to as the “Road to Revolution” due to the in increased tension between the colonists and England. The English parliament passed numerous acts that increased colonial taxes, angering the colonists. Between 1750 and 1776, in response to the tax laws, the colonies united and formed the ultimate identity of the United States of America.…
Politically the colonies had gone through many key changes in ideology that gave the idea of revolution the traction that it would need to gain public support. The people that encouraged revolution such as Thomas Paine, the writer of the essay entitled common sense, would be crucial in uniting the American people into a fighting force that could withstand the terrible devastation that a war with Britain would precipitate. Another political ideology that would prove crucial was the enlightenment movement that started before the Revolution. Enlightenment was a movement spearheaded by intellectuals. These reformers sought to challenge ideas that were accepted as common place in their respective societies. The unrepresented taxation by the British was one of the many policy that had become simply accepted without resistance or action until the enlightenment movement. Colonists were able to see that the world that they lived in was unfair and that it was within their power to change that and make it right. Overall politics had a very profound effect in uniting the people of the United States under certain ideologies. This unification allowed them to start the revolution. Although politics would not win them any fighting once the war had begun it was a crucial aspect of why the colonies were able to win the war.…
The American Revolution displayed certain stages throughout that matched with the broad general pattern. As a prelude before the Revolution itself, there were already preliminary symptoms of unrest within America that followed the first step in the general pattern of revolutions. Prior to the initial shots in 1775, growing discontent against the British Government who were passing certain acts that the Americans thought as very unfair had already risen to a high degree. With the majority of acts incurring economic and financial costs, by 1767, the Townshend Acts had been passed, putting further taxes on paper, glass and tea. Upon the taxes that the Stamp Act of 1965 incurred on such items as newspapers, official documents and almanacs, the American people became highly agitated and a feeling of resentment quickly spilled over the masses, ‘several person were for dying rather than submitting to it...’ [pg52 Maier, P.] Additionally, the Colonialist became increasingly violent, ‘Almost immediately after the Acts [implementation], outbreak of mob activity. By 1770, the preliminary symptom of unrest displayed through protest and discontent was evident. The Colonialist did not feel that they were obligated to be subject to these taxes without representation in British Parliament. Additionally, the psychological pre-condition associated with the cause of war was present in the Colonialist discontent regarding the numerous Acts bearing economic consequences. Not only had the events up till 1770 displayed active protests and early mob activity, it also hinted at the potential oncoming violence the growing mob could inflict which was the next step in the general broad pattern of revolutions.…
The American Revolution (1775-83) is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The war started because the residents of Great Britain’s thirteen North American colonies disagreed with the colonial government, who represented the British Crown. The first instance of the disagreement happened in August twenty sixth in seventeen sixty-five. A riot occurred in front of the chief justice and lieutenant governors house. The Bostonian citizens disagreed on a recently passed British tax called the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was a law that required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on every printed paper including legal documents, bills of sale, contracts, wills, advertising,…
The political discontent seen in France was one of the causes of the Revolution. In the 17th and 18th centuries, France was ruled by an absolute government. The king had all the political powers. Anyone who criticized the government could be arrested and put in prison without trial. Louis XVI was king at the time of the French Revolution. He was more interested in hunting than governing France. He and his queen lived an extravagant life at the Palace of Versailles. They did not really care about the state of their country. The third was largely ignored when it came to political elections. The first two estates worked together to outvote the large third estate to keep them from becoming a threat to the power. American Independence sparks this French Revolution. The American Revolution also originated from political discontent. However, the America 's discontent stemmed largely from misrepresentation and not over taxation. The Stamp Act was merely a way for the colonist 's to pay for their own defense. Colonists simply felt that they had no voice in Parliament, which was no different from the rest of Britain 's colonies.…
Change is everywhere. Like a chameleon changing its skin color as it hides from a predator in the desert sand, we are naturally equipped to adapt to our surroundings as living beings in time of threat. This theory is no different in the realm of social history: humans are apt to change their actions, beliefs, and motives in transitional periods of sociological enlightenment or political progression; and with regard to the American Revolution, this process of social evolution is apparent in essentially every piece of pertinent historical literature. In Gordon Wood’s The Radicalism of the American Revolution, he states that the American Revolution was a rather “conservative affair, concerned almost exclusively with politics and constitutional rights…hardly a revolution at all.” As this statement arguably serves as the thesis of Wood’s monograph, Wood…
To recapitulate, the cause of the American Revolution was due in part to the taxation by the British without the colonists having any representation in Parliament. Documents one and three focus on the Stamp Act, which demonstrates a forced British tax on the colonists. Documents two and six show the colonists’ reactions and responses to these taxes which led to the commencement of the American Revolution. An interesting idea to consider is whether the American Revolution would have ever happened if the unfair taxation on the colonists had never…
By this data, the significant changes in the capability of lower-class citizens in gaining representation, proves the American Revolution to be radical. Proven through a document, The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement, as Reverend Devereux Jarratt complains about…
It can be assumed, that the American Revolution was caused more by political factors because the British government wanted to change the way the colonies were ran. Factors such as deprivation of trial by jury and the right to assemble, grieve, and petition the king (Document E). Another political factor was the colonies’ natural and legal rights were constantly being annexed by the Parliament (Document H).…
The American Revolution, was a political upheaval that occurred from 1765 to 1783. During this event, the Thirteen American Colonies resisted the ruling of Great Britain therefore attempting and later succeeding at their independence and the founding of their unification as the United States. In the summer of 1776, the Colonies declared their independence, developed a rough idea for a democratic government and the British suppressed any rebellions and the idea of the Colonies’ independence. The decisions that were made on the front lines of the military conflict influenced the creation of the United State’s government by showing the need for a secretary of war, a government and the Declaration of Independence as well as the bottom up approach and the restrictions needed in a republic government .…
A common misconception is that the American Revolution was a war fought to gain independence from the tyranny of King George. The American Revolution was no such thing, but it was a political movement that wanted change. The American Revolution included all things from the Boston tea party to the intolerable acts. These acts brought out a dramatic change in the colonies. The American Revolution brought about tremendous change by transforming the colonists who were no longer subject to the crown, into individuals of a republic which created new political significance to the meaning of the citizen.…
The political aspect of the American Revolution was that the British government wasn't letting colonists own certain land or go certain places. The colonists had to abide by new laws made very frequently so that they wouldn't defeat the British without a fight. Most people disobeyed the laws and acted as if they didn't exist, and many people were sentenced unjustly for doing so. The British are always making new laws stating whether or not colonists can do certain things. The colonists soon disregard the new laws because they no longer care what happens to them as long as they are…
The American Revolution paved the way for many changes in the structure of the government and society of the United States of America. Because of the immense amounts of change the occurred after the revolutionary war, despite the fact that most of these changes were not direct results of the war itself, the common view is that American Revolution was a real revolution. In contrary to this view, the American Revolution was not a revolution because various factors, such as goals and surrounding circumstances, of the revolution are radically different from those of revolutions of other countries. The outcomes of the American Revolution also…
The American Revolution embarked the beginning of the United States of America. A war that lasted eight years, 1775-1783, was able to grant the thirteen colonies the independence they deserved by breaking free of British rule. The war was an effect of the previous French and Indian War, which forced England to tax the American colonist, compelling them to rebel against parliament. From the 1760’s to 1775, many factors lead up to the American Revolution such as the various acts the British Parliament passed to pay the war debt, no representation in parliament, and the American people wanting to gain their independence. “No Taxation without Representation”, a slogan used by the American colonist, was the most important cause of the colonists declaring war for their independence on the British government.…