Revolutionary+Warwill08

Was the American Revolution really a revolution?

I think the American Revolution was a revolution because meaning of revolution is to overthrow a government acording to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Revolution second defonition, letter B and thats what we were trying to do during the middle of the war. They were trying to become free from the government, The British/ Red Coat.

Some events causing this revolution were things like the Boston Massacre, that was when a patriot mob was throwing snowballs and rocks at a squad of British soldiers. The British responded by returnting fire killing several colonists. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm

Another event was the Boston Tea Party. This event was when around 200 men dressed themselves up as indians and dumped over 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the high tax on tea. http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_boston1774.html These and other events were enough to start a revolution

The first battle of the revolutionary war was the battle of Lexington and Concord. The people had to decide if they wanted to start the war or say we made our stand and go home. A gun shot decided for them, what happend is that they decided to fight, but the Red coats and the Minute Men were wating for one side to shoot. No one knows who fired the first shot. It may have been the Minute Men ot the Red Coats.

If I was the general in front of the minute men before the battle I would say, "This is it men, here and today we will start the fight for freedom. This is the time to show them ourselfs what our wepons can do insted of them taking them away from us. It is also the time to get back at those blood coats for rasing the tax on our tea. I want King George to know that he is no longer ruling us. We will fight here and make our stand and win."