American Revolution, The

Morgan, G

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.62057-3

American Revolution, The

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Abstract

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The American Revolution was the first of the Atlantic Revolutions. Having attained a status of advanced development, the American colonies were not prepared to tolerate the imposition of taxes and tighter controls which the mother country desired to impose on them. Ill-judged policies met resistance which escalated and resulted in war. Aided by the French, the Spanish and the Dutch, the Americans won a famous victory. Most innovative was the creation of a republican government, constructed over a period of three months in the summer of 1787.