The+American+Revolution

I personally, do not believe that the American Revolution was a real "revolution." The defintion of a revolution is change in power or orginaztional structures that takes place in a __short amount of time__. Even though everyone believes that the war started quickly without any notice, it really was planned. The king of England and the government of Britian had been forming tension with the thirteen colonies for nearly a decade of time. Even though the fighting didn't start, the conflict did. The people of the american colonies were being unfairly taxed. This went on for quite a while. The defention states that it happenes in a short amount of time. The British government passed a bunch of laws trying to gain control of the thirteen colonies. All of the americans were used to having their own government, that they rejected all of the laws. The thirteen colonies kept on rejecting the laws and the british governent relaly wanted to have control over them. The british soldiers were put into Boston on short notice. Even this was short notice, everything leading up to this point was planned and in effect for a long period of time. The thirteen colonies were unprepared for the war. Because of their lack of organizational skill, they had no government to have reflected off of. They had no army or navy to fight, so they had get an army together fast. George Washington became the main leader of the war. As it went on, the Birtish won many of the battles, but even though they won, they didn't gain a lot of power. The American patriots kept on fighting and tried new things as the war went on. Even though this unexpected war was called a revolution, I do not believe that is should be considered one!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution; http://www.42explore2.com/revolt.htm