American Revolutionary War

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Did you know 25,000 people died during the American Revolutionary war? The United States of America started out like any other with a king who want more land which equaled more power. It started with the Charter of 1732 and General James Oglethorpe of course when the charter ended Britain took over and there was the beginning of the American Revolutionary war. The American Revolutionary war was the start of a great county. The battle was with the thirteen colonies wanting independence from Great Britain. The thirteen colonies didn’t want to follow any of Britain’s undeserved laws anymore. The American Revolutionary war was the most life changing event in U.S. history because it was started by Great Britain, many people died, and the United States won the war.
First off, the American Revolution came about by Great Britain. The battle began because the colonies believed they should be treated better than they were. The Americans were being taxed by Great Britain without representation by Great Britain. The slogan was “No Taxation Without Representation” (Kelly). All of the taxes and such upset the Americans seeing they were once citizen of that same country a while ago. They believed they should get all of the rights their fellow man but the British thought the way it was set up was perfect. Who could blame them all of the laws like the sugar act, currency act and 7 more only issued to the colonies could upset anyone. Thomas Jefferson stated “Our properties within our territories should not be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.” (Jefferson). This quote shows how frustrated the thirteen colonies were with all of the regulation and taxes by Great Britain. Taxes were one of the reasons the American Revolution war s...

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...t being free from the govern slavery of Great Britain. We would have still been under British control paying unfair taxes. We struggle to make ends meet without much money to feed our own families. Compared to how our life is now. In the end we all see the thing that happened in the American Revolutionary war and how grateful we are that it happened.

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