for one, it was felt that they had to defend themselves from indian raids and warring, so why are they paying for the empire? and also, the lack of voting rights, and also, the forcing of locals to host british troops

i think the last one was what finally tipped a lot of people over the edge

Not to mention being ruled over by some cunt they didnt even know 7,000 miles away

and also british soldiers stationed in the colonies, if they committed a crime they were whisked away to be tried in england

Where they were aquitted, ofc

yes

Because stinky colonial peasants

The start of the american revolution was throwing the tea in the harbor eight?

I believe thats as the catalyst to the test, is thats right?

Boston Massacre

THEN the other stuff

British troops fired on unarmed colonials who were protesting the imports tax

Which was imposed to fund a war the colonials wanted no part in, hence why they left Europe

Oh!

And the whole revolution was done mostly by ”the proletariat” right? Farmers, inner city workers, etc? But also landowners?

I don’t know hiw the US looked at this time. Most were agricultural workers with their own land right? Or did most live in large cities?

Landowners funded it, proletariat carried it out

Till the french started giving us guns/training/artillery/loans

Mostly farmers/sharecroppers. Yeah

I see. Seems pretty sane.

You could completely avoid all forms of politics/policy just by riding a wagon 40 or 50 miles away from the major cities

Which is why lots of englishmen/women moved to the US to escape the nonsense of Europe

Were there any people who were the ”leaders” of this, or was it just people banding together?

Ahhhh i understand

Banding together at first, till the continental army

When the colonies declared themselves impartial to british rule and cut ties with England

I see. So a large difference between this and the russians is that the landowners were on the workers side too

Did the americans have a large academic community at this time?

Ummm. I think so? Most of the founding fathers were well to do scholars/international businessmen/philosophers

Or ex military men

@MountainMan 90% of people would have been farm workers at that time tbh

probably similar in russia

Ahhhhh! Thank you @Tero

Ahhhhhh I see @Son of Rome

The founding fathers, they were working reallt hard during the revolution, or sid they come afterwards?

Once again sorry for my ignorance on the US lol. I know jack shit about it kek

Well most of them bankrupted themselves funding America in it's newborn days

Define "working really hard". Lol

Working with

Oh yeah, for sure

So from what I understand, its pretty similar to russia right? The workers were the ones doing the work, the petty burgoise or landowners fynden them, and the academics led them?