The beginning of the American Revolution, described by Edmund Morgan as “the shot heard round the world,” was the “American search for principle” (Bender 63) . Although the world's colonies did not necessarily seek independence like the Americans, the world's colonies were still tired of the “administrative tyranny” carried out by their colonizers (Bender 75). The American Revolution set a new standard in the colonies, proclaiming that the “rights of the English” should and must be the “rights of man,” establishing a new foundation for the universal rights of man (Bender 63). This revolution spread new ideas of democracy to the colonized world, reshaping people's expectations of how they should be governed. Bender emphasizes that America challenges “old imperial social forms and cultural values” and embraces modern individualism” (Bender 74). Bender characterizes the American Revolution as a turning point for national governments. The American Revolution began a new trend of eliminating the old and introducing new self-sustaining systems of government for the first