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Why The American Revolution Wasn't Called The English Civil War?

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    A national war is a war in which parties contained by the similar traditions, civilization or population struggle not in favor of every extra for manage of opinionated authority. Political scientists make use of two criterions: the militaristic groups should be as of the similar country and skirmishing for manage of the following center, manage more than a nationalist state or to strength a main revolutionize in rule.

    An insurrection is usually seen as a national war fought more than issues of philosophy, more than how authority must be prearranged and disseminated, not simply more than which persons hold it.

    Purely set, in the American Revolution, those who rose to administer the US were immobilized (rich...but politically helpless) earlier than the occasion. In the 13 colonies, a fresh kind of civilization had grown-up dissimilar as of that of the mother country (no landed heritable nobleness). In the case of the English Universal War, it was (extra) a question of who convention, upper class in assembly or aristocracy of the ruler?

    Had the revolutionary misplaced, the proceedings of 1776 would possible have been the American revolution of 1776.
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    Luckyhaidy 

    answered 3 years ago

      Also calling it the English Civil War would be confusing, because we had one of those - between the Roundheads of Oliver Cromwell's puritan anti-monarchists and the Cavaliers of King Charles I.
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      Harka 

      answered 2 years ago

        The British have had several of their own which were all held within their own country.  The American Civil War was between sections of the USA , by people known as Americans and 70 years plus years after the British colonists in North America fought to be  separated from England.
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        Dtagliento 

        answered 2 years ago

        If it was called the English civil war then England would be fighting among themselves?To be a civil war the country you live on would have to fight among themselves and not some other country.
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        Rhd 

        answered 6 months ago

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