Although the colonists' lives changed significantly in many ways after the American Revolution, the economic, political, and social conversions are viewed to be the most dramatic. The American Revolution was the war between the American colonies and Great Britain from 1775-1783 . Most consider this war not to be a nationalist revolution, in which the aim of the revolutionaries was to overturn the existing system, but rather to set up the North American colonies as an …showed first 75 words of 503 total…

…showed last 75 words of 503 total…Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin are seen as representing the poorer side of society, and promoting political equality. Where some think the American Revolution was not "revolutionary" at all, others believe it was warranted as such by establishing a new, satisfying regime. No matter what one thinks of this, there are factual aspects of America that considerably changed after the war, the most important being the economy, political structure, and social life.