The American Revolution: A Truly Revolutionary Process

The American Revolution was more than just a revolt against the taxes and trade regulations that the British had made. I consider the American Revolution to have been a genuinely revolutionary process. These people fought hard for their independence to acquire some principles such as sovereignty, rule of law, and protecting their constitutional rights. They were once amicable with the Britain’s until they started to cause conflicts with their taxation's. Also, they had the Britain’s land policy which would prohibit the Americans from creating settlements in the west which irritated the colonist. The fleets of British troops arriving at their ports weren't to pleasing for them as well either. However the biggest problem they had was that the British Empire needed money and they would only tax the colonist, which they thought was unfair. They proceeded to pass acts to the colonist. Acts like the Stamp Act (which put a tax on all legal documents) and other acts that were used to raise money for the British Empire. This started to create a huge growth of resistance in the colonies. They also hated the quartering act which forced them to provide food and shelter for British troops. However, what really drew the last straw was when the parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which was a bunch of acts that had punished the Massachusetts

These were basically the causes of what fueled the Americans to become independent and go to war with the British Empire. The British targeted the rebels in the north side but failed at capturing anything thanks to the Americans which stopped the British from continuing to proceed from Canada. After that they continued to attack the south and were able to capture some points. However, they failed at maintaining control because the patriots would assail the loyalist and take out the supply