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[|declaration of independence] Was the American Revolution really a revolution? [|deffinition of revolution]

[|patrick henry's speech] [|thomas paine's the american crisis]

[|boston tea party] [|boston massacure] [|lexington and concord] [|bunker hill] [|trenton] [|princeton] Speech:

Was the American revaluation actually a revaluation? Because the definition of revolution is "an overthrow and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed." That is exactly what happened in the Revalutionary War. In the following events, they fought against the country that governed their daily lives, batteling their troops out of the collonies, so they could start their own country.
 * YES.** Why?
 * the first big revolt was the Boston massacre. march 5 1770, 5 Americans were shot and killed by british troops.
 * The second big revolt was the Boston tea party. Angry because of the unjustified tax on tea, colonists raided three British ships, dumping 342 crates of tea into the Boston harbor on December 16th 1773.
 * The first shots between american and british troops happened on april 19th 1775. Americans had a weapons depot in concord, so the british were headed there. As they passed through lexington they got ambushed. No one knows who shot first, but the americans ended up having to withdrawl, not entirely stopping the British, but slowing their advance.
 * June 16th 1775, americans occupied breeds hill in charelstown so they could guard Boston's shipyard. on the 17th the redcoats attacked, taking the hill but suffering great losses of troops.
 * christmas night 1776, Washington and his troops crossed the frozen delaware river from pensylvania to trenton. Running into a drunken hessian troop, leading to a 45 minute battle that resulted in 900 heassian prisionors.
 * american triumph in princeton, on january 3rd 1777, almost chasing the british out of new jearsy for good.

Dare you ask if it was a revalution? So many things stirring under the british's noses. The collinists were creating the sons of liberty, revolting and fighting all over the colonies. and they had all reason to fight! oh they did. unfair taxes! just a few pence, one might think. but no! the princible! their ancestors, pilgrims themselves, left england to be free to worship whatever they wanted. for that freedom! oh but not so fast, old george up in the uk decided to tax them. for what reason? they weren't in england anymore. Revaluation means overthrowing a government the people don't agree with. And that's exactly what happened on those fateful couple of years in the newborn United states of America.