... this concisely drawn book that covers the colonial period from 1763 to 1790, the author attempts to explain the bases of the American Revolution. One thing is quite certain, the American Revolution cannot be understood as simply battles won and oppression thrown aside. The author makes it really clear that enormous cultural, social, and economic changes were occurring in the colonies dating from the French and Indian War. There was a tremendous amount of westward ... , Constitution-making and War, Republicanism, Republican Society, The Federal Constitution. In every chapter the author gi...

• Word Count: 700
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... themselves for over a hundred years, with little or no help from England. Then after the French and Indian war England found it's self in a huge debt. So what did they do? They started imposing taxes on the colonies. This outraged the colonies and rightfully so. The colonies imagined themselves as a new and better England. So when England started trying to tax them they looked at them as ... could have been very different. There is another event that happened before the war. It was called the great awakening. Although it happened before the war it had a huge part in preparing the people ...

• Word Count: 980
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School