The American Revolution was a military and political struggle that waged for roughly eight years. American colonists fought for freedom from Great Britain, beginning in 1775. On the fourth of July 4th that year, the colonist's leaders had signed the Declaration of Independence, officially separating them from the sovereignty. This obviously upset Britain who needed the revenue from the colonies to rebuild after a war in Europe. There were many reasons that the colonists wanted to be separated, for one thing, tax, for another, they were pretty tired of the whole monarchy and Divine Right of Kings. The American Revolutionary War is not ended until the Treaty of Paris is signed in 1783.
One cause of Pontiac's Rebellion was: British settlers flooding into Indian lands in western Pennsylvania and Virginia. Colonists were viewed as inferior by the British.
