was the American revolution revolutionary ? why or why not ? please argue your point?

Answer 1

Now from a real historian who teaches this stuff every year.

No. No historian believes that the American revolution was revolutionary. Life for most Americans did not change a great deal. It was a gradual change from British rule to domestic rule. In fact for those who lived on the frontier in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and western New York and Pennsylvains they didn't even know a revolution had taken place for months and months. So if you are defining a revolution as a sudden and drastic change in life, then absolutely NOT.

Answer 2

The American revolution was certainly not the first, so its not revolutionary in that aspect. However, it was in the fact that a group of colonists, self organized, with no formal military system was able to win against the British Army that was larger, stronger, and better armed. Also, most revolutions occur within the same land area as the main government, as opposed to the American Revolution. This proved to be a huge advantage for the colonists. Britain had to transport its troops across the Atlantic. The crown was fighting revolutionaries from a distance, and was not able to effectively centralize military strategy and policy.

Answer 3

This is easy.

The american revolution was revoluntionary because it search to become an independent republic with along with the creation of its own constitution set the standards for other country as France, Haitan, and Latin American to search for their own independence. The american revolution begins with the hiearchy of no nobility, a huge class of small farmer, artisan, marchent, shopekeep,indenture sevant, and slaves. They had a large middle class. Their ideas to search for equality, and freedom came from enlighemnt ideologist John Lockem who believe in popular soverity and goverment authority. Which means, that the people can over throw the goveremtn, if they are not satify with their actions these are their "natural rights." Another ideologist Voltaire, who fight for the people, and believe in justice. The sequence of the American Revolution began with the 7 years war, and the cause was becuase they were in dept, the British tax the colony by various forms of trade (Tea,Stamp,Money..). The citizen who was poor, and anger because of the huge amount of money that they have to pay, began to start a rebellion. In the end, America became an independent republic, and a constitution for the rules of the goverment, created by the own citizen.

Answer 4

no. revolutions were popular before the american one.
its just that americans think theirs is the only important one,as most know very little history of the rest of the world.

Answer 5

not really. revolutions have happened as long as there have been structured governments