What is you take on the american revolution?

Question

i mean what would america would be like if the american revolution hadnt been fought? you think we'd be british ??

Answer 1

The American Revolution started the nationalist revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. It was an idea whose time had come. The leaders of Colonial America were inspired by British political philosophers like Mill and Locke and forged those ideas into the spirit behind the American Revolution.

If we had not fought a revolution but had pressed for political and social change, we probably would not be much different. Look at Australia, Canada, New Zealand, each former colonies of England that obtained their independence through political means.

Answer 2

I'm from Europe, but I read the declaration on independence and I have great respect for founding "fathers" of the USA and the original concept they introduced...I sincerely admire those who decided to act against British oppression...I also have great admiration for Abe Lincoln, the guy which liberated black Americans from slavery, I feel the same about Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt and tenths of thousands of American soldiers willing to sacrifice their lives for the liberation of the Europeans during WWI and WW2...I appreciate Harry Truman, who proceeded with Marshall's plan to rebuilt destruction imposed upon Europe by the Nazis...Lately however America unfortunately lost my sympathies: wars in Korea, Vietnam and especially in Iraq were utterly unnecessary...Wicked politicians have taken over recently which is bad for America and the rest of the world !

Answer 3

Interesting question, but very academic.

We would undoubtedly speak English, but I don't think that would qualify us a being British.

Another is, we wouldn't be called America: maybe, NewYokshire, or Overseas Dover, who knows?

The possibilities are endless, but I don't to waste any more time thinking about them: as I said, it's academic, which translates: it doesn't matter.

Wotan

Answer 4

what would "being british" consist of? We'd probably be more similar to a Brazil....none of the European countries have KEPT their west lands from becoming sovergn at some level

Answer 5

I'm all for independance, but, after we came to the new world why did our fore-fathers name it New England? New Jersey? New Amsterdam? New York? I mean come on, they could have thought of SOMETHING original.

Answer 6

~If you really have any interest in nonsensical hypotheticals, for the answer to this one, look no further than Canada. And it was not a revolution, it was a civil war.