Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage depicted the American Civil War from the point of view of an ordinary soldier. In England readers believed that the book was written by a veteran soldier, the text was so believable.
The main reason why the Thirteen Colonies revolted against British rule is because they believed they were being taxed unfairly since they had no representation in Congress--making the British tyrannical.
The appropriate response is a procedural civil liberty. "Civil liberties" concern essential rights and flexibilities that are ensured either unequivocally distinguished in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, or deciphered during that time by courts and administrators.
If the colonists had lost the war, there probably wouldn't be a United States of America, period. A British victory in the Revolution probably would have prevented the colonists from settling into what is now the U.S. Midwest. ... Additionally, there wouldn't have been a U.S. war with Mexico in the 1840s, either.
