Revolutionary War Essays and Research Papers

The revolutionary war, also called the American Revolution, was a series of events that led to 13 colonies gaining their freedom from Britain. The 13 colonies of Britain, located in Northern America, had shots fired between the colonists & Britain soldiers which signals the start of the revolution. The American Transformation was the principal effective…

It’s 1784 and the Americans, it turns out, have staged a successful revolution. They haven’t lost any land to the British- in fact, they have gained land. Now they must form a government, and the first steps, like any small child’s, are wobbly. Very wobbly. The politicians of the day don’t fully understand the extent…

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, written by Carol Berkin, features the revolutionary war through the eyes of women. She makes a point that women played one of the important roles in the war, though the history books often rule them out, or romanticize their roles. Carol Berkin has textual evidence that…

In 1777 on the hills of Valley Forge during The Revolutionary War, the Colonial Army Troops lead by General George Washington were struggling. The Colonial Army troops faced many disadvantages such as diseases, sickness, malnutrition, exposure and wounded soldiers and crowded living quarters that lacked established standards. In fact, around 16,000 soldiers died from starvation…

In Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, by Carol Berkin, who is a History Professor at Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Baruch College, provides several viewpoints of the way women were affected by the Revolutionary War but at the same time also playing majors roles in it….

October 19, 1781 was the day that the Battle of Yorktown official ended with a British surrender. The Battle of Yorktown ended after three weeks of nonstop bombardment. September 28, 1781 was the day that the battle started. The colonists decided to fight once the British started undertaking the Southern campaign in order to keep…

What role did women play in the American revolution? Did you know that women did a lot to protect our country? During The American Revolution, women did a lot to help and played a big role in protecting our country and fighting for independence. Women often took jobs when they were not able to support…

Shortly after the French and Indian War ended in 1763, which left the British with a large war debt that needed to be paid, the English government decided to pass a few laws, imposing taxes on the colonists, such as the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765) which Congress later condemns, and the Townshend…

When it comes to the American Revolution, there are so many factors that are said to have caused it, that it is hard to determine which are the direct causes, root causes and the fuse. The root points are the interest conflict between the development of north American capitalist economy and the British colonial rule,…

The first historical event is the american revolution. The revolution has changed the entire US because, if we didn’t have the war with england, we would still be stuck under british commands. The American Revolution is what caused this nation to exist. It motivated other nations to gain their independence from ruling lands, such as…