American Revolution
In the two decades before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, I agree how the Americans thought and felt about the British government and their colonial governments. To go back in time and put yourself in the Americans shoes then probably if not most of us would hate the British government. The Americans were tired of putting up with the British and that's pretty much what lead to the American Revolutionary War. There were many events that made the Americans feel the way the felt against the British. One being that after the French and Indian War, the British thought the colonists did not provide enough support for them. But the Americans thought the British military tactics were weak and wanted to be led by colonial officers. The British viewed that as a sign of disloyally. In other words the Americans lost respect for the British military. Also the Americans noticed that the British were treating them differently. They were not getting as much respect as they used to get. Finally the British did not share the same values as the Americans. The British were more of a higher class than the Americans and the
I think the colonists did the right thing, in protesting and boycotting the taxes. I would not want someone that came from another place and try to tell me what to do, I just would not do it. I believe that they took the right actions in the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. They fought for what they thought was right and I do not blame them for that. There were a couple of documents that would separate the colonies from the British. The frist one is the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was statement issued by the Frist Continental Congress in 1776, that explained why the colonies were seeking independence form Britain. About fifth teen years after the Declaration of Independence was the Bill of Rights, which kept British soldiers going into colonists houses. The British taxation on the Americans is one of the biggest reasons for the American Revolutionary War. The British were simply in debt because it cost so much to govern and defend their large empire and on top of that the costs went up even more durning the French and Indian War. One way they could pay it off was to tax the A
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