Causes_and_Events_Leading_up_to_the_Revolutionary_War

Causes and Events Leading up to the Revolutionary War For the past two-hundred and twenty-five years, the United States of America has been its own empire. However, prior to this time, this country was the equivalent of young child, trying to find its own identity. Great Britain was the mother country for the colonies that had settled onto North American soil during the 1600’s. For a time, Great Britain guided, supported, and ruled this new world. As the colonies settled into the Eighteenth century, they entered the realm of adolescence, wanting more freedom, less rule, and more of a voice in what would ultimately be their own destiny. For over 100 years, the United States willingly accepted rule from Parliament. Yet, as England’s situation at home worsened during the mid-eighteenth century, they looked over to the new world to help dig them out of the financial trench they were in. Between the years 1763 and 1775, Great Britain placed a number of acts, taxes, and bullying schemes upon the colonies, in hopes of easing their own monetary woes. Consequently, these actions which were being pounded upon the colonies proved to be more than they could stand. Finally in 1775, the revolutionary colonies, british, act, colonists, boston, parliament, tea, stamp, american, acts, over, new, great, years, troops, britain, being, americans, york, war, revolutionary, however, government, between, 1775, world, upon, time, people, own, massacre, felt, country, yet, taxes, right, purpose, mother, just, financial, england, customs, again, after, 1765, without, ways, various, until