The war began because the Americans were being taxed by the British government because they were suffering major debt. So in order to be out of debt they taxed the Americans with taxes like the stamp act and sugar act. That did not settle well with the American and eventually the taxes led to eventually the American revolution. Yet after the American Revolution the United States was in debt …show more content…
Yet after the revolution the U.S. faced the possibility of collapsing because it did not have a strong government. By 1777 ,11 of 13 states had its own constitution, in all there was no unity ( The American Yawp). It is stated in “The American Yawp” that the U.S. was threatened to collapse in 1788 and 1789 because of the heavy debt and there was no unification between the states. A country that was in the beginning stages was already threatened to collapse was not good at all. That undermines the whole purpose of the Revolution to begin with, the whole reason was because all 13 states were supposed to be unified and work as one sole country not 13 individual countries. Before and During the war the U.S. was a unified country yet when it was all over they were separate there was no central government. In this case the lives of the americans did change because after the war they were no longer unified instead all 13 states started to be