American Revolution?

Question

What was the significance of the American Revolution?
What happened & why?
Who was involved?
&What was the outcome of it?


[Please don't put down any stupid answers like "just google it" or "do it yourself" you're just wasting my time & yours.]


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Answer 1

The American Revolution marks the first time for a lot of things!
First and foremost it is the birth of the United States of America. It started out as a way to combat the British colonialism of the American continent but it quickly transfromed into a movemnet to gain an independant country built on individual freedoms with a democratic government. While the USA has not quite lived up to the original intentions set forth during the war it is a unique form of government that offers its citizens far more freedoms than most other governments on the planet/
It is also significant in that it was the first time the traditional colonial powers of Europe were tested. Until this point only other colonial powers were willing to fight with England, the most powerful nation on Earth at the time. This marked the beginning of the end for its empire. The American revolution paved the way for the colonial powers to hand over the reigns of power to the people living in the colonies and this quickly affected all of the Europian colonial powers.
Finally it is important because it marks the change of what had been traditinoal combat for close to one humdred years. Up until this point battles were fought in very specific ways with understood rules and formations involving two armies facing each other on the battle field and essentially standing there firing at each other until one side decided it could no longer afford the losses and would retreat or surrender. The American revolution brought guerilla combat tactics to bear on this old style of fighting and did so with tremendous results. With the use of snipers, hit and run tactics, and ambushes the American revolution helped to change the style of combat that had been a mainstain of war across countries and generations.

The people involved were the American colonists and the British empire and to a lesser extent France. The colonists were lead by Gneral George Washington who would later become the first rpesident of the USA. The British army was lead by General Cornwallis under the British king George III. As the Americans became mroe embroiled in the fight they eventually secured assistance from the French in their cause. Without this help the revolutions would surely have been squashed.

Over more than two years of fighting the Americans launched several succesful attacks to the point that the British were no longer willing to expend additinal soldiers or money to the cause and decided to offer over the colonies to the Americans (though they would be back in the war od 1812 to try once more to defeat the Americans which was also a lost casue for them). The bravery and ingenuity displayed on both sides is noteworthy of praise and the dedication of the average foot soldier is legendary. While it was not a particularly bloody war as compared with the American civil war or either of the World Wars it did take its toll on both sides. The fallen soldiers of these wars are memorialized in literally dozens of memorials across the original 13 colonies.
Hope this helps

Answer 2

The American Revolution was the first time coloniest rose up against the mother country and won.

The Colonists responded to the British take over at Boston and the British raids on Lexington and Concord with force. With some French help, American finally beat England and became independent.

Answer 3

The chance of a second American Revolution is small at best. The reason for that is the "bread and circuses" factor. The government has enough lazy self centered ignorant constituents that are happy with Mcdonalds, pizza and watching "Dancing with the Stars" on HDTV to negate the will of those intelligent enough to see that we are no longer a free country. People simply are too fat and content with being fat and ignorant to risk their comfort in order to regain freedom. We have devolved from a constitutional republic through a constitutional dictatorship to what is now in effect a real dictatorship that is destroying this country on a daily basis. It is perhaps too late for us. When we lost sight of the republic concept and accepted the idea that democracy was good we were doomed. The only question now is how far we will fall into slavery.

Answer 4

You're right. An answer of "just Google it" would be stupid. However, an answer of "do it yourself" is not wasting your time.

Entire libraries of books have been written on this topic. To expect someone be able to give you a snappy answer in a forum like this *is* a bit unrealistic.

That said, the most basic significance of the American Revolution is that it created a new country!

What happened? 13 of the 15 British colonies in North America rebelled.

Why? Lots of reasons, but the touchstone issue was "taxation without representation" - hence the "Boston Tea Party".

Who were involved? The British Army (the "Redcoats"), United Empire Loyalists (colonists who did not agree with the rebels and felt unity with Britian was better), the Continental Army, various allies and mercentaries (Hessians, French, etc.).

Some noteable personalities include
George III (aka "Mad King George", king of England at the time),
Paul Reeve (famous of the midnight ride),
George Washington (general of the Continental Army),
Thomas Jefferson (author of the Declaration of Independence),
John Hannock (famous for the size of his signature on the Declaration),
Benjamin Franklin (in his role as statesman),
Patrick Henry ("Give me liberty or give me death!),
Benedict Arnold (widely regarded as a traitor),
Francis Marion (the "Swamp Fox").

Outcome? The United States of America was born. Unresolved issues resulted in the War of 1812 a couple decades later. The French were impressed and gave the American people a gift in the form of the Statue of Liberty.

Does that help?

Answer 5

were doin american history in school right now so i know a lot about it... i dont see how u dont understand what happened? but ok.

Great Britain began to tax Its american colonies unfairly, and the leaders of the colonies began to get mad at them.
The colonies put together a group of leaders to write The Declaration of Independence. They were Ben Franklin, John Adams, ????? Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson.

The Declaration Of Independence called for the colonies to be "Free and independent states".
Thomas Jefferson was elected to write it, because he was the best writer of the group.

On july 4th, all of them signed it, which was like putting bountys on their own heads for Treason..

They sent it to The Kind OF England, and he grew mad at his colonies. He sent most of the British Army and Navy to the colonies, to take over and go to war with the colonists [At the time, Great Britain has the best military in the world.]

George Washington Was elected by the contenintal congress [the make-shift government for the colonies] to be the leader of the Continental army.

At first, the British army was winning all the battles. Nobody wanted to become allies with the Colonies, because the chances of a bunch of farmers beating the best military in the world was VERY slim.

The british also brought in Hessians, which were german mercenaries.

Then, at the battle of Saratoga, everything changed. 3 British Generals were suppossed to meet up in Albany, New York, but one of them decided to take a different route, and chase George Washington. The other, was cut off by americans in a battle, and were set back.

When The 3rd british general got to Albany, no one else was there. The americans surrounded the city and captured 6000 british soldiers, roughly 1/4th of the british army that was in the colonies.

After this, Because of Benjamin Franklin, France, and then Spain too, began to openly announce that they were goign to ally the american colonies.

The American forces, now backed by two other countries, began to win more and more battles. The british began to concentrate more in the south, because thats were most loyalists of the british were.

Then, at the battle of Yorktown, General Cornwallis [the highest british general in the war] was trapped in the city, at a port by 2 ships [which were blocking ships with british reinforcements] and 2 militias attack to trap him in the city, Cornwallis is forced to surrender, and the entire british army falls at the feet of the colonists.

The two groups, signed a treaty in 1783, saying the british must stay out of the colonists area, which was the east coast of The United States today. And so a new country, the United States Of America is invented

Answer 6

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