What was most interesting in what i learned in class was finding out how little of the population in the colonies were actually against the British crown's rule. When I was taught about the American Revolution in previous classes, it had always seemed as if the majority of the colonists were revolting against Great Britain. Instead, only forty percent of the people wanted to be free from the rule of the crown; which was the same percentage of the people who wanted to stay intact with Britain! The rest of the twenty percent were people who simply did not care one way or the other. This information is just baffaling and somewhat dissapointing for me. To be told that the American Revolution was a rather conservative revolution and the colonists were simply over reacting over having to pay taxes is very upsetting. As I think on it now, the United States became independant and free over something that is very crucial to our economy today and most Americans do on a daily basis. Was the revolution then pointless? Most Americans at least, pay taxes on one thing or another whether it being buying a new car or picking up a bag of chips at a local grocer. I will answer my own retorical question above; no, i do not believe that the American Revolution was pointless. It brought about many good things such as rights for the people and freedom to live life justly, but it is a topic that is still very baffaling to me. How is it that something so huge could be started by something so small such as the concept of tax that is still done today. I suppose that is the greatest moral of the American Revolution, that it is not exactly what the colonists were fighting about, but rather that the colonists stood up for what they believed in, made their voice be heard and stuck with it until there was an affected change. Something us Americans would not be able to do if those 'overreacting' political activists had not challenged the British law.