Nature of American Revolution
Over the period of time, there has been a continuous debate over the nature of American revolution. Historians and scholars of every time have seen the entire movement with their own perspectives and labelled it according to their own thinking. The revolution has been considered social, radical, conservative or simply an independence movement from British Rule due to discontent amongst the masses which was led by thirteen independent states. Hence the question arises at many occasions that the American Revolution was indeed, revolutionary in nature or not? If it was a real and true revolution by all means, then up to what extent? And if it is not, what prevented it from being a revolutionary movement and how much were the social impacts? To answer these questions in appropriate way, lets have a brief look at the entire scenario of the movement so that it becomes easy to understand the causes and consequences of the revolution.
Since the start of second half of the 18th century, the american colonies were greatly under the impression of being a fruitful land for the Britian, as the regime was in dept itself. They were of the view that the government is trying to get more money out of them as they were more prosperous and progressive than their rulers. There were no signs of democracy and those who spoke about it were considered rebellious to the regime. Also, Americans were more enlighten than the Europeans in literature, arts, science, philosophy and other social aspects of life. Hence they considered themselves different from the British and wanted representation in the parliament....
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