The American Revolution (1763-1783)

Abstract

After the French and Indian war,the colonists needed the British protection to control them. So,Great Britain began to take firmer control of its colonists after the parliament had passed the navigation acts to impose taxes on American imports,money and other items. The colonists complainedthrough making speeches and writing articles innewspapers.Besides,onegroup among them protested by throwing crates of British tea into Boston Harbor.In 1774, colonists held the first continental congress because they wanted from Britain to treat them properly.Britain ignored their demands and started to send troops to control the colonists. The colonists organized their own army. And the Revolution beganthus,for the sake of getting their Independence from Britain.The colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence that Americawas free from Britain. This extended paper tackles the rebellion between the American colonists and the British which developed in revolutionary war that lasted two decades and was crowned with great victory although it had cost a lot of human lives and too many material casualties. This big war has unified the Americans and made from America a symbol of freedom and democracy as well as exerted too much influence on other countries.