The American Revolution: Radical?

I think that the American revolution was incredibly radical. In going against the King, and their mother country, which is pretty radical if you ask me. Things like the Boston Massacre, where the death of five people (who were taunting and harrasing british soldiers) was turned into...a massacre...... then there was the Boston tea party, where they went as far as to dress up as indians to dump tea into the Boston harbor. Those actions, to me, are the definition of radical actions.