Follow up on previous blog: Industrial Development- The Beginning

    The American Revolution was the first modern revolution. It is described as the first time in history that people fought for their independence. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were some individuals who played an important role in the American Revolution.

The revolution was followed by the Revolutionary War, the War was fought from April 19^th 1775 until September 3rs 1783. This Revolutionary War in the United States, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, but progressively grew into a world war between Britain on one side and the newly formed United States, France, Netherlands, Spain, and Mysore on the other. American independence was achieved and European powers recognized the independence of the United States, with mixed results for the other nations involved. Other nations involved particularly Native Americans faced a “New World” with the creation of the new United States of America. 

During the many years of conflict, Native American groups, like many others residents of North America, had to choose the loyalist or patriot cause, loyalist being colonist in the British colonies in America that remained loyal to Britain, and patriot being colonists in the British colonies in America that wanted independence from Britain to establish their own country (the U.S.) —or somehow maintain in a stance in the middle. But the Native Americans were trying to manage all on their own in trying to maintain and keep their homelands as well as continue access to trade and supplies as war immersed into their lands too. Some fought with the British, while others fought alongside the American colonists. This War was an assemblage of many events like the Battle of Saratoga (1777), France and United States form Franco-American Alliance (1778), entrance of Spain in the war against Britain (1779) and the peach of Paris signed to end war (1783). Ending the U.S War of Independence, the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783. In the end, the American Revolution grew out of increasing restrictions placed upon the colonies by the British. One interesting side note: It is estimated that only one-third of the colonists were in favor of rebellion, one-third continued to side with the British. The last third were neutral concerning the rebellion and break from Great Britain.