Revolutionary War Revolutionary Ideology

The Revolutionary ideology is a feature in the social web of the colonial citizens of The United States that may, have had a considerable impact on the fight for independence and the formation of a government for the people during the Revolutionary War. The birth of this ideology, while impossible to place a exact date on, can be etched back more than a decade before the Revolutionary War. It can be argued that the social reform machine began when the first colonist arrived in the western hemisphere looking for undisturbed freedoms and opportunity. A common theme that drove the revolutionary ideology was the knowledge not only of the monumental impact of the job at hand with fighting the war, but also the impact of a republic on such a large scale in America would …show more content…
This was never more clear than when George Washington created The Continental Army. This directly went against the revolutionaries ideology. It required a personal sacrifice of freedom and liberty. However it was deemed acceptable by the revolutionaries on the grounds that you were sacrificing personal freedoms in hopes of acquiring more. It was a necessary evil in order to achieve the ends envisioned by revolutionaries. Religion also played an important role. God, in the eyes of the earliest revolutionaries, was on the side of liberty. This was certainly the mind set that aided in the triumph over our European counterparts. War, from the religious perspective of the revolutionaries before the Revolutionary War, was seen as a necessary evil. The suffering of the colonist under the controlling hand of the English government could be thought as much the same as the suffering of Jesus at the cross. The revolutionaries felt that it would be looked back upon war as a sacrifice for unrivaled freedom and democracy. It could even be looked at as a sacrifice for all countries under the control of a tyrannical government. The revolutionaries had there own ideas on independence as well. To them it was a