Revolutions: Gains & Losses
The American Revolution started in 1763 when American colonists became so fed up with British rule they revolted. Tax on tea was too high, so they dumped it into their harbor; and just the sheer volume of impositions and taxes from a king across an ocean from them was too much for colonists to deal with (American Revolution). Ultimately fighting started and gains and losses began. As far as wars go, our revolution did not have a whole lot of loss of life. Many men were killed in big battles, but because the enemy was pretty easy to spot and battles were carefully planned and executed at one time, versus ambushes and guerilla warfare, not many lives were lost outside of those battles. The biggest gain of the revolution was obviously the fact that America was now its own country under its own rule. No longer did we have the British breathing down our necks and telling us how to run a country they were not even living in. We gained right for men to vote and own...
Cited: Perry, Marvin. Western Civilizations: Ideas, Politics, and Society. 8th. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
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