The American Revolution also called the U.S. War of Independence was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
John Locke helped with the magna Carta the magna Carta defended the rights of the colonists and the mayflower helped the colonists that left england to make a self governing goverment they both helped the colonists