Strengths, Weaknesses and Outcomes

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Strengths, Weaknesses and Outcomes

Britain could have maintained a beneficial long lasting bond and enjoyed continual control of the colonies well into the future by implementing better diplomatic practices before the onset of the war. After the onset of the American Revolution the colonists had some advantages against Britain; however, it was with the aid of the French that America was able to achieve its independence.
The British had the opportunity to maintain their status as a mother country before the onset of the American Revolution by exercising better diplomatic strategy with their colonies in the US.
The colonist gained many advantages from their ties to Britain and also had a strong sense of loyalty to their mother country. The British had a need to recuperate expenses used to defend British colonist in the seven year war. To obtain this parliament passed different bills with the aim of gaining revenue from the colonists. The desire to collect revenue for this behalf was reasonable; however, the diplomatic matter in which they carried this task out is was where the problem was seeded.
The colonies which had been mainly established by trading companies, religious groups and land spectators had been allowed to gain the momentum of self-sufficiency and freedom of experimenting with local governments. Britain was able to legitimize their role over these territories through the mercantile system. To take over the wheel completely replacing the array of already established systems within the towns Britain needed to focus on unifying the colonies with British patriotism as well as to gradually implement policy. Drastic and swift measures would only prove to make a great distance even greater, diminish the sense of loya...

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...n and Marquis de Lafayette. Marquis de Lafayette was essential in securing aid from France. The Americans desperately needed aid and military supplies. The Americans wisely honed in on the French’s spirit of revenge against the British to gain the aid that would allow them to win the war.
If history remained as is up to the point of the outbreak of the revolution, Britain would have eventually subdued the colonists alone with their superior military, weapons supply, financial abilities and greater population. However, with the aid of the French and with Britain be preoccupied with issues in Ireland the American colonists were able to achieve victory in establishing their independence. It is amusing to play with the what-ifs in history, but the what-dids have contributed to the America we know today.

Works Cited

The American Pageant 15th edition. Kennedy, Cohen

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