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The American Revolution changed the history of the United States of America. There were many causes and effects of the American Revolution. It also caused many revolutions also, there was the French Revolution and the Spanish Revolution. One cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party. Parliament passed the Tea act (taxing tea),but when the tea began to arrive in November 1773, several colonial port cities refused to let the ships dock in …

…the level of ideas. The colonists were rethinking the proper role of citizens, governments, and the relationship between the two. It was during the Revolution- and the years leading up to it, that Americans learned to demand that Government respect citizen's rights. Despite considerable weaknesses, the Americans won important victories against the British between 1775 and 1777. Americans won their independence militarily by outlasting the British in one of the longest and costliest wars in American history.