The American colonies, which became the United States, have had prosperity since their inception. However, with time, tensions between sides grew, which eventually culminated in the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Both wars were the product of the very prosperity experienced, tensions between, respectively, the colonies and Great Britain as well as the free North and the slave South, with the latter regarding the future of slavery. The significance of the American Revolutionary War stems from what it stood for, and the principles it upheld. The Revolution stood for the desires of the colonists to break free from the metaphorical chains that King George III, Parliament, and Great Britain had put on them. The principles of the Revolution
