What Are The Decisive Events And Arguments That Produced The American Revolution? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (Charles Dickens)." This best describes the Americas in the 1700’s. The settler’s went through the best of times from obtaining religious freedom, to becoming prosperous merchants, and finally to establishing a more democratic government. However, it was the worst of times in the sense that the settlers in the America’s were taken advantage of my their mother country, England. The hatred of being under a ....