“Give me liberty or give me death!” – Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

Have you ever heard of this country called the USA? Well, it used to be part of Britain, and the US only became a country after a long revolution against its mother country in the 1700s. Before the Revolution, the Americans were just colonists settling in on the newly discovered continent of America, and while not all of the colonists were British – there were many different people from many different countries – all the colonists in the British colonies were under the control of the British Parliament. And the thing about the British Parliament at the time, is that they really liked putting taxes on people. They had their reasons, of course; they had just fought a long, 7-Year War with France and Spain for the rights to the new land across the sea, and wars are expensive. Now Britain needs to earn their money back, and they decided that they would do so by vigorously taxing the colonists. However, the colonists weren’t very happy with all the new taxes, and they demanded that they get some representation in the Parliament. In the meantime, the Parliament kept on passing Acts without the colonists’ consent, and through a series of riots, repealing, and passing new acts, all the tension eventually boiled over and started what we now know as the American Revolution. In this revolution, the colonists fight first for more freedom from the Parliament, then for the complete separation of the colonists and Britain.

In this video, we will explain the American Revolution in Plain English, and spoiler alert – though you probably know this already – the Americans win. But without any further ado, let’s get into the video. Enjoy!

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