AP Revolutionary Essay

There comes a time when a student outperforms his teacher, this is also the case in the colonization of the American Continent. It took a while for the inhabitants to realize that they were better off without the British monarchy, but the colonists did not realize this immediately; it took years of British oppression to cause the colonists to rebel. The primary reason that the colonists rebelled was that they were sick of heavy unfair …

…factors by themselves were oppressive in their own right, but the period before the actual revolution was anything but one. A revolution, as seen throughout history, is always deeply rooted in the people’s mind long before the sudden burst of revolt. Therefore, this revolution, like most others, started long before 1776, it was the result of Britains slow institution of new unjust acts, taxation, military measures, and the propaganda/ideals in favor of revolutionary actions.