The Revolution was a changing moment in American history, which brought us to be emancipated from the British Empire, and in turn create our own country. There was a chance that the American Revolution might have never happened, and the American colonies would have stayed with the British Empire, and we might still be under British control. The event that triggered the Revolutionary War was tighter British control in the colonies. How did tighter British control in the colonies lead to the Revolutionary War? For a long time, the colonies were under salutary neglect by the British Colonies. This meant that the colonies mostly ran themselves with little British intervention. The colonies were under salutary neglect for a long time, and the colonies