To an extent, it is accurate to call the American Revolution a civil war. The definition of a civil war is a war between to opposing groups of citizens belonging to the same country. The American Revolution war split the colonies up between the patriots and loyalists. Both the colonists and British soldiers were all English and therefore became the opposing groups of citizens. In this case, the colonists were fighting their own countrymen in which they were apart of the same country. The British wanted to keep control over the colonies. However, the colonists thought of themselves as being independent from the crown, (royalty) and Great Britain.
The British passed laws that concerned the whole empire, including the colonies. However, the entire empire was not represented in Parliament. "Great Britain also had the authority to bind every part and every subject without the least distinction, whether such subjects have a right to vote or not, whether the law binds places within the......

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Title: American Revolution
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