Revolutionary War Research Paper

There were several events that led up to the American Revolution. One of these were the French and Indian War, also called the Seven Years War. After the British won this war, they convinced the Indians to restrict land beyond the Appalachian Mts. in the Proclamation of 1763. After the war though, the British government became much more dependent on the revenues gained by the colonies in order to pay for everything. This led to extreme economic disparities in the colonies. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. This led to them planning rebellions in order to fight the economic inequality. People were fed up, as seen in this quote: “In 1763, in the Boston Gazette, someone wrote that ‘a few persons in power’ were promoting political projects ‘for keeping the people poor in order to make them humble’” (Zinn, pg. 58).

This taxed anything on paper from marriage certificates, letters, etc. Riots followed all through Boston in 1767. This led to the creation of the Loyal Nine, and eventually the Boston Massacre where British troops shot at colonists. Perhaps the most famous act of rebellion against the British government was the Boston Tea Party in December of 1773. As people were getting more heated, Tom Paine wrote “Common Sense” which greatly encouraged the parting of the colonies from Great Britain. It became extremely popular and the people seemed to love his ideas. Mostly lower class people supported since he himself came from a modest background. In my opinion, A Patriot’s History of the United States was a lot more detailed than A People’s History of the United States. For example, in Schweikart and Allen’s book, the description of the Boston Tea Party was much more descriptive than in Zinn’s book. Schweikart and Allen talked about what sparked the Boston Tea Party, the Tea Act. They described what happened in great