The Revolutionary Era
During the American
Revolution there were several events that marked history in the War for Independence which were the
first steps for men and women to obtain their freedom. The people from the
colonies faced several oppression from the British in the Acts that were established
in the colonies to obtain taxes. Although it could be thought that they were
being drained from their money, certainly they had a better standard of leaving
than Europeans. The first act was the Sugar
Act which was a way to raise money to pay for the cost of administrating
the colonies. As a result there was the No
Taxation without Representation. During this time there was a depression in England, this lead to
heavy taxation. Due to this colonist boycott
the British market. These were the starting events that lead to the Revolution
and independence from England.
Freedom and independence was an
unspoken theme for several people in the colonies that were being affected by
the multiple acts that the British Crown forced. An act that was boycotted by
the colonist was the Stamp Act which
was an act that forced al the printed paper to have a tax stamp; therefore the
colonial action was to create the Stamp
Act Congress to have rights. Another act that was forced was the Quarantine Act which forced the
colonist to provide food, lodging to British soldiers, therefore the colonist refused
to do such thing. Then came an even harsher act, which was the Declaratory Act, which was a way to
show colonist that Britain keeps the right to make laws in the colonies. Colonist
just kept resisting against the British acts. Although the in the colonies
there was a certain amount of tension being felt everywhere.
Another event that triggered and
gave a small head star to the revolutionary war was the Boston Massacre, which was a mostly propagandist method to promote
tension and political measures against the British actions in their acts. Then came
the Tea Act to save the East India
Company, the action that the colonist took was the Boston Tea Party, a group of colonist destroyed a shipment that
brought tea to the colony. Due to the actions of the Colonist there came the Intolerable Act and The Port Bill, the
Intolerable act was a measure due to the Boston tea party, then the Port Bill
was that the Boston’s port was closed until colonist paid the damage they
caused.
After the incidents of the Boston
Tea Party came the Massachusetts
Government Act which was a new government in Massachusetts, then came the Quartering Act which force colonist to
quarter British Soldiers in private homes is necessary. Another act that just
made it worst was the Administration of Justice act, it was an act in which
British officials in Massachusetts had the right to trail in a court outside
the colony. To enforce all of their acts four thousand troops were sent to keep
order in Boston. The actions that the Sons of Liberty did was to create the First Continental Congress, this
creates the Continental Association
which is to boycott British goods and send a petition of grievance to the king,
outlining what is considered the rights of colonist and their assemblies. Then in
1775 British troop march in Massachusetts to seize and Destroy colonial ammunition.
Colonial and British Troops collide in the Battle
of Lexington. Then the Second
Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia to address the revolutionary war
aims and appoints George Washington commander in-chief to the Continental Army.
Although all of this Acts and
battles that the colonist had with the British lead to the revolutionary war,
there had to be a Declaration of Independence
written by Thomas Jefferson who was
a member of the of the gentle class. The Declaration of Independence basically
said that the colonies united as one and cut ties from their parent country. Although
much of this were talks and acts, if the colonist did not win the war of
independence and the British did not fight for their 13 prosperous colonies it
would not have great cause. Furthermore, a great many colonist called Loyalist or Tories, were still loyal to King George. John Adams estimated that
one third of the Americans were rebels, one third Tories, and one third was
neither.
Wars kept on going throughout the
colonies that were part of the American Revolution after 1777 was at Saratoga,
where Marquis de Lafayette, who was
a French who assisted the Americans with 6000 men. Another European person
essential in the war for the independence from England was Baron von Steuben, from Prussia; he drilled Washington’s troops and
wrote a book that brought much discipline to the Continental Army. Then come the
Treaty of Paris which George III was
no longer the ruler of the 13 colonies. After the Treaty of Paris in December 23
1783, George Washington did a very impressive act that was to give up power. Now
the United Sates government starts to form a confederation, an alliance of sates.
During 1776 the Articles of Confederation were written although they were not approves
until 1781. They created the Legislative
Branch, the part that makes laws, the Executive
Branch which is the part that puts the laws into action, yet the Articles
of Confederation did not create a Judicial
Branch that is the part of government that judges where laws have been
broken, that job was left to the states.
Although much blood was shredded for
the War of Independence and several attempts from many British to stop such
insane acts through their eyes, the Americans made a change in History and gave
the first steps of an infant entering and adult world of politics and
government. It did not take much for the rest of the America to star
revolutions for their independence. The Revolutionary Era was not over yet,
since the new government had to establish itself and begin the era of a New
Country.
Declaration of Independence
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