There was no other revolution in the world like America's. The Russian Revolution and the French Revolution all structurally changed their countries. Thousands upon thousands died. There was mass murder, and even when the Revolution was finished, true freedom was never really attained.
The United States, however, had a different kind of Revolution.
Society didn't conform to the shape of the war. People weren't blood-thirsty rebels that wanted to kill the British. They just wanted their rights back. The rights which King George and the Parliament had taken away. When their requests for independence were ignored, they still asked peacably for their rights to be restored. With the occurance of the Boston Massacre, tempers flared, and everything began to set into place. The dumping of the tea into the harbor, or The Boston Tea Party, showed that they didn't want to be taxed or controlled by a government that didn't even represent them. So, the patriots took up arms and had to forcibly press a very powerful army into giving them their freedom.
With the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence, people stood together for the same cause: Freedom.
Wow. How radical.
When we achieved our independence, our society wasn't altered in some extreme way. People went on as they had before, but this time they were free.
It makes me sad to think that so many of our precious liberties that so many men and women have died and continue to die for are slipping away. All the more reason for us to stand up and fight back against a goverment that is overstepping its authority and trying to deny us our freedom.
Only this time it's not Britain. It's our own government that was established by our Founding Fathers.
The United States, however, had a different kind of Revolution.
Society didn't conform to the shape of the war. People weren't blood-thirsty rebels that wanted to kill the British. They just wanted their rights back. The rights which King George and the Parliament had taken away. When their requests for independence were ignored, they still asked peacably for their rights to be restored. With the occurance of the Boston Massacre, tempers flared, and everything began to set into place. The dumping of the tea into the harbor, or The Boston Tea Party, showed that they didn't want to be taxed or controlled by a government that didn't even represent them. So, the patriots took up arms and had to forcibly press a very powerful army into giving them their freedom.
With the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence, people stood together for the same cause: Freedom.
Wow. How radical.
When we achieved our independence, our society wasn't altered in some extreme way. People went on as they had before, but this time they were free.
It makes me sad to think that so many of our precious liberties that so many men and women have died and continue to die for are slipping away. All the more reason for us to stand up and fight back against a goverment that is overstepping its authority and trying to deny us our freedom.
Only this time it's not Britain. It's our own government that was established by our Founding Fathers.
- The Liberty Belle
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