THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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It freed the Americans from British Rule
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It started the “Age of Democracy”
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Revolutions started in France, Haiti and South America after the American Revolution
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The A-Revolution resulted in historians referring to the previous “first British Empire"(pre revolution) vs “second British Empire”
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The A-Revolution created the United States of America
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), commonly known as the American Revolution, the Americans in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British, gaining independence from the British Crown and founding the United States of America, the first contemporary constitutional liberal democracy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Revolution also unleashed powerful political, social, and economic forces that would transform the post-Revolution politics and society, including increased participation in politics and governance, the legal institutionalization of religious toleration, and the growth and diffusion of the population.
Detailed explanation-3: -Britain spent a huge amount of money fighting the Revolutionary War, sending the national debt soaring and creating a yearly interest of nearly 10 million pounds. Taxes had to be raised as a result. The trade that Britain had relied on for wealth was severely interrupted.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Taxation Acts, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts were the four main causes that lead to the American Revolution.