Lost+the+Revolutionary+War?

If America had lost the Revolutionary War, would America have eventually gained its freedom? By: JaS- S.O.T.H. and BH- S.O.T.H.
**__Background information:__** The British could not easily supply troops and materials for this war effort. It was too hard for the British Government to aid their troops over the Atlantic Ocean. It was just to vast of an expanse.

__**Why this question is important to America's History:**__ If the United States did not win the Revolutionary War, there would have been many more hardships in American history. America losing the Revolutionary War would create more friction between the U.S. and Britain. This would lead to more battles and more blood shed in the America.-BH-S.O.T.H.

If America had lost the Revolutionary War America may have never won its freedom. After losing the Revolutionary War American hopes would have been dashed. We may have tried to become a part of Great Britain once again and maybe we would have returned to being the 13 colonies. For a while I think that America would not have gained its freedom because of all the lives lost the colonists would not be willing to go back into war so quickly. ~JAS-SOTH

__**Would America have ever gained it's freedom?**__
America is a prideful country. We do not take loosing kindly, even at a simple game if you lose you are all for a rematch and will work harder than ever to win. The willingness to go back out there and try harder than ever to win is not always bad but in the case of the Revolutionary war the people have been fighting and they are tired. After being away from your family for a number of years you are in no condition, mentally or physically, to go back to training and start another war. You would be devastated that you lost and may be thinking if it is even worth the cost to go back to battle. Your life could be better but it could be worse. You feel like you want to give up trying to fight against the British, after all their army is a lot bigger than the Americans army would have been at the time. Every American citizen is all for a fair fight and during the revolution there was just about nothing fair happening. If something is not fair why go into it when you can avoid it? Because of our obsessing over fairness it is unlikely that we would have not gone back into an unfair war, unless it was unfair in our favor.~JAS-SOTH

Another reason that America would have never won its freedom after losing the Revolutionary war is because Great Britain would have keep better tabs on America after the rebellion. If you are working in a child care and you have three kids you are watching and two of them are playing nicely with each other. Then out of the blue you turn around and the third child is gone. You run to the window and you see the child running down the street as fast as a three year old can run down the street. Bursting out the front door you see the kid running down the street. You catch the little kid but then you realize that he is a rebellious child and will keep better tabs on him. Britain will most defiantly have kept a closer watch on America after we attempted to rebel the first time. They would have sent more troops or military personnel to monitor the American activity.~JAS-SOTH America may not have won its independence if we had lost the Revolutionary war because of the next generation. A Revolutionary war veteran could get married after the war and could soon have a son. The kid’s dad would take time out of his schedule to talk to the child about his times in the war. The child will listen for a while but then eventually he will get board. If the father talks and tries to push the child in to the military to fight in the next war for freedom the boy may not want to. He has heard all about the hardships of war, and he has grown up in a home that was affected by the war. Often in America the second generation will not want to be the same as their parents. A child born to two teachers, and has parents who are pushing him or her to become a teacher as well, may decide not to be a teacher just because he doesn’t want to do the same thing as his parents. America is a rebellious nation and when one is pushed into someone by an authority figure they will want to back out and be what they want and do what they want. If the next generation of kids were pushed to fight they may not want to fight because of all the push to do something.~JAS-SOTH

If America lost the Revolutionary war America would still have gained its independence. There was just too much tension between America and Britain to live peacefully. When push comes to shove America was persistent, they forced Britain into the Revolutionary war they did not like the taxes and did not keep that to themselves. The Boston tea party is a great example of this, it showed what America would do to gain its freedom. They did not care that Britain was this big world power, they wanted to break away from their harsh restrictions and taxes.

America had a strong will power to fight. Britain was just being greedy and making money off of a weak country. America was protecting their land, they were keeping there investment strong and did feel that it was right to have such a large tax on something so small such as tea. America had right to the land they established, Britain thought they could rule over an independently thinking country. America was expressing its thoughts about the war and used it as a way to breakaway from Britain.

Even if our ancestors did not teach there children about the injustices that Britain was applying to us as a nation, we would still have gained our independence. Britain could not keep control of America over such a long distance, they needed more troops and more supplies to enforce there style of government. Our ancestor' s children would have an even stronger will power to fight, because they were under the enforcement of Britain for so much longer. They would feel a great will to avenge their brother's and sister's deaths due to the war efforts. By:BH-SOTH

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