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I think the American Revolutionary War was revolutionary because it was going from a monarchy to a democracy and that is revolutionary. Many people don’t believe that it was revolutionary. They had their opinions because we didn’t get rid of our pre-existing social or political infrastructures. People like to compare the American revolution to the French Revolution, which ended in the country having a whole new take on social equality and freedom to live as you please. They got rid of King Louis the XVI who was destroying their country. Then they underwent a horrible time period known as the “Great Terror” where Robespierre commanded that there were enemies everywhere and started mindlessly killing his own people. Many historians believe that
But it did require a war with Great Britain to gain our freedom from the chains they had on our country. We battled for our ability to govern ourselves and have our own laws and regulations, to trade with whoever we pleased and be ourselves. We wanted to pick who our ruler was and decide for ourselves what our destiny was. We didn’t need other people to make our decisions for us because we were becoming independent . We beat Great Britain with some help from our great allies, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. This lead to the creation of the Articles of Confederation, which would eventually fail, but it was our first shot at our own government. Later the Articles of Confederation would be terminated and the United States Constitution would be created and put into place. This created a democracy, (a form of government where the citizens of the country vote for their leaders and select state representatives to vote on laws in congress), which is what the USA is still today. We went from having to be told what to do by the people and leaders of Britain, to getting to choose our leaders and allowing them to govern this country the way we fought for it to be governed. To me, this sounds like its revolutionary. This revolution allowed women the right to protest and fight for their equal rights. It allowed America to choose whether or not they would allow
They say that America was pretty much already governing themselves and the war did nothing but make it official. I don't think that that could be anymore incorrect. The United States did try supremely hard to govern themselves, but ended up getting punished more and more by Great Britain every time they tried. A result was that the taxes kept continuing to go up. This was the only way for America to be able to make their own choices and not to have to deal with constant punishment from the British Government. They weren’t governing themselves, they were destroying themselves. Every time they did anything in spite of the Britains it backfired. For example, The Boston Tea Party lead to a major raise in taxes. That’s only one of the events that the United States figured would work in helping them gain their freedom, but it ended up hurting them more than it helped them. Nothing about the way Americans lived before the Revolution said that we were our own country. They were basically imprisoned by someone on the other side of the world, so they took action to change that. The American Revolution is the reason you and me are here now, the only reason we can proudly say that we are Americans, not Colonists. Also the reason you and I can say that we're free and are not controlled by a