Digital History: The American Revolution

(The Sons of Liberty were a gang of the patriotic colonists). Seeing that the colonists weren’t glad and opposing the Tea Act. Colonist actions made the parliament angry and disrespected. The royal parliament decided to take a serious step ahead and enforced them the intolerable act. The Intolerable Acts as you know were in response to the Boston Tea Party.

The furious royal government responded to the "Boston Tea Party" by the Intolerable Acts of 1774, practically eliminating self-government in Massachusetts and closing Boston's port. The news of the destruction of the tea raised the spirit of resistance in the colonies. With this act, the colonists started the violent part of the revolution. It was the first attempt for the colonists to resist violently against the Great Briton. It was when all the colonists realized for the first time that they were treated wrong by the British government.

The Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act the following year restricted mercantile trade in the colonies, infuriating Arnold and his ship partner (Biography.com). As an act of rebellion, Arnold joined the Sons of Liberty, a secret society that was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. The revolutionary war began in 1775 and Arnold began the war as a militia captain. Arnold proposed and participated in a maneuver to seize New York’s Fort Ticonderoga, and an invasion of Quebec (Biography.com). When the Continental Congress excluded him from the primary missions, Arnold convinced George Washington to lead a second expedition to attack using the woods (Biography.com).

Rejecting the rule of Britain the colonists overthrew their monarchy to gain independence and founded the United States of America as a democracy. Events such as the Intolerable Acts and the Stamp Act, along with taxation without representation, caused the colonists to break from British control. The relationship between Britain and the thirteen colonies consisted of an ongoing pattern between conflict and support. After The Seven Years war Britain was left with French’s land in the Americas and a large amount of debt. The war produced a very contradicting effect.

The American Revolution was a political upheaval in the 1700’s during which many colonists of the Thirteen American Colonies had overthrew Great Britain authority, rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, and founded the United States of America. Similarly, the French Revolution was also a political upheaval in the 1700’s during which the Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established their own republic, went through violent events of political turmoil, and finished with a dictatorship led by Napoleon Bonaparte which quickly brought many of its principles to Western Europe. Both the American and the French Revolution were products of Enlightenment ideals, which had emphasized the ideas of natural rights and equality. The results of the American Revolution and the French Revolution are very comparable as both Revolutions experienced great changing events at this time. The American Revolution was caused by the French and Indian War, which was

Imagine living without representation in the government; a world where people are treated like objects without natural rights. This is how the American colonists lived from the mid-1760’s to the mid-1770’s as taxes and acts were placed upon them without any representation in Parliament. This caused tension between England and the colonies, which consequently, after several failed treaties and negotiations, kicked off the American Revolution. On 23 March 1775, Patrick Henry gave his “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention.” In this speech Henry uses rhetorical questions, repetition, and his past experience to build a strong speech to persuade his audience in taking part of the Revolution. Rhetorical questions are a great way to get an

The colonists, who sent numerous petitions King George, didn’t receive the same treatment as other British citizens, and they only made it worse. The King sent troops to America to assure himself that the colonists would obey his

From 1642 to 1649 the British Isles were thrown into turmoil. What started as an argument between parliament and the crown became one of the deadliest wars fought in the British Isles. Britain would see a regime change akin to the invasion by Normans they faced in the 11th century. And the control later gained by Oliver Cromwell would turn England into a military dictatorship with few religious freedoms and leave another black mark on Ireland's history. The 1630s had been a pleasant time for Charles the I's kingdoms.

The British impressed thousands of American sailors into the Royal Army, punishing Americans despite America’s state of sovereignty during Britain’s war with France. This blatant disrespect of America’s neutrality was a big factor in America’s decision to declare war against Britain. Furthermore, the British still kept the Orders in Council even after America passed several embargo policies hoping for change. The policies were ignored by the British and Americans were only harmed by Jefferson and Madison’s attempts for peace. Ultimately, the War of 1812 was due to Britain’s inability to respect America as a nation separate from the French and British

In this work, he had the title, “The Town of Boston in New England and British Ships of War,” at the top, which would suggest that the soldiers had arrived for the sole purpose of starting a war with the colonists, when in fact they had come to protect them (Revere 2). These examples show how propaganda was used at that time to alter the colonists perception of the event and lead them to believe that the soldiers had massacred the colonists. Propaganda incorrectly promoted the affair as a massacre when in reality, the situation does not fit the phrase

They use to treat parliament and queen of England with full respect. Things begin to change around 1760s, when British parliament passed series of laws without the consultation of American people. The one such law in this series was Stamp act. The Stamp act was passed in 1765. Americans found this tax to be unconstitutional and disturbing because they believed that no freeman could be forced to pay the tax without his permission.

One time the British passed a law that allowed the british soldiers to forcefully live in the colonists’ home! The colonies started out to benefit Great Britain, but after one war and lots of laws, the colonies were going to be part of a revolution. What was the American Revolution about? Economic Rights or Civil Liberties? On one hand the British instilled unfair regulations on trade and goods.