Revolutionary War Turning Point Essay

The most iconic war in America’s history was the Revolutionary War. This war marked our freedom from the British Crown, and birthed a new nation. Although we cried out and fought for freedom, it was not always like that way. There were series of events, and major turning points that led up to the rebellion of the colonies.
There were many events that sparked the Revolutionary War, but one could trace the origin back to the French and Indian War. The British fought the war for the colonies in able to gain the territory west of the Mississippi. The war ended with the Treaty of Paris, and the British were victorious, but they had exhausted all their materials. Being terribly broke, they turned to the colonies for financial aid and imposed new

The colonies, fed up with British soldiers’ involvement, started through snowballs, and rocks at them. Out of self-defense, the soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five people. This went down in history as a “massacre” just to fuel the hate against the British Crown. Then the colonist took it a step further with the Boston Tea Party. They were disgusted with the Tea Act so they plotted another act of rebellion. They dressed up as Indians and dumped almost a million dollars’ worth of tea in the Boston Harbor. Infuriated, the British decided to discipline the colonies by placing the Intolerable Acts, but enough was enough. The colonist held the First Continental Congress. There they met and came to the conclusion that something had to change, but they were not ready to split from the Crown. Then the events such as the publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, and the Lexington and Concord Battles (“the shot heard around the world”), led the colonist to assemble for the Second Continental Congress where they finally decided that it was time for a radical change. They drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War was well under

The perspective of each group varied on account of their situations. Many of the colonists were actually very loyal to the British Crown. If it was not for those events, they would have never been pushed to wanting freedom. The British also did not want a war, especially with their own noblemen. They had already fought one war which they were still recovering from and did not have the resources to fight another one. The French, on the other hand, did not want to help the British, who they lost to in the French and Indian War, and they were not going to help the colonists who were losing each battle. It was not until the battle of Saratoga the French aided the colonists. In the end, it boiled down to the fact that colonist wanted to be recognized as their own nation, and the only way was through