Events Leading to the American Revolutionary War

[oriolesfan61]

only one third of Colonists supported revolution. they used terrorist tactics against the loyalists

[oriolesfan61]

The Parliament did represent the interests of Colonists, albeit not directly. The aggressive minority of Colonists refused any reasonable taxes, selfishly.

[oriolesfan61]

The Colonies HAD TO BE TAXED to pay for the msssive French and Indian War debt, a war that had primarily benefitted the Colonies.

[oriolesfan61]

At the time of the Revolutionary War, the Colonists had the lowest taxes and the greatest natural resources anywhere in the British Empire.

[ScottishLegendftp]

Calvinist republic.

[MrDreamer3000]

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[11nytram11]

The creation of "Intolerable acts" was the fault of Samuel Adams and his radicles. Their tea party and their violent response to pretty much anything Britain did in realtion to the Colonies led to the very real problem of British authority figures and soldiers being disrespected and agressively mobbed in one of its own territories. Britain had to show this was not to be tolerated or it would destabolize the entire Empire.

[Kronimiciad]

or not. And he wasn't about to let them be on their own.

[Kronimiciad]

@11nytram11 And here we see the British loyalist, in their natural modern habitat, the troll's quarters. It wasn't just the Americans. I agree that some things they did in response was too aggressive, and people back then were rather messed up every which way, but Britain certainly wasn't in the right. King George wasn't a smart person at all, as was said by many. Britain didn't have to show them and didn't have to keep the colonies, King George said that they may either be one their own...

[11nytram11]

@Kronimiciad If you agree with some of the things I said why did you call me a Troll? The definition of a Troll is someone who repeatedly posts the same baseless rubbish over and over again regardless of any response or someone who posts inflamatory and off-topic messages. What I wrote wasn't off-topic, nor was it inflamatory or baseless rubbish, its not the pro-American/pro-Revolutionary version of events but its not as if that version is the only one that exists.

[11nytram11]

@Kronimiciad The actions of Samuel Adams & the radicles he stirred up in Boston were a direct attack on British Authority in the Colonies. There were tax collecters tarred &feathered, there were soldiers mobbed &abused, British merchandise was destroyed &there were cases of British Ships being burnt. Massachchusetts was seen by Parliament to be in open rebellion against the crown after the Boston Tea Party and the "intolerable acts" was Parliament's attempts to restore lawful governance to it.

[11nytram11]

@Kronimiciad Of course Parliament was not totally in the right. They were heavyhanded and didn't give enough thought to what kind of message they were sending out to the rest of the colonies, especially when they restricted all meetings in Massachusetts and revoked the states right to self-governance & replaced colonial officials with ones appointed by Parliament. Parliament thought they would isolate and turn the colonist against the radicles but ended up doing the opposite.

[11nytram11]

@Kronimiciad King George III was an intelligent man. He was more concerned with agriculture than politics (especially politics on a grand, international scale) &resided over the greatest boom in the agricultural revolution. He created the Royal School of Arts, he had one of the largest libraries in the world which he left to his people when he died. He was deeply facinated with mathematics and sciene and donated a lot to further study in their fields. He may have been wrong but he wasn't a fool.

[11nytram11]

@Kronimiciad In supporting Parliament and opposing the Colonist, King George believed that he was defending the right of the democratically elected Parliament to levy taxes and was not seeking to dominate the Colonies and expand his own power while weakening theirs. The man mainly to blame for the heavy-handing, ham-fisted way Parliament dealt with the colonies was Prime Minister Lord Frederick North. Most people have never even heard of him.

[Kronimiciad]

@11nytram11 Regardless. I don't know if anything of what you said is valid or if anything I said was valid. History is hoplessly riddled with bias, and because of that what really happened can get... confused. In any case, neither side was completely in the right or in the wrong. But, thinking about it, I'd prefer the colonists being aggressive and then, subsequently. seperating from Britian instead of us still being ruled by Britian and the Parliament.

[11nytram11]

The Townsend act did not put any kind of unreasonable tax on imported goods. For some merchandice it would take months for the tax to raise any resonable income. Townsend brought the act through Parliament in the full knowledge that would not raise a large amount of money but in the hope that it would make the Colonists more used to being taxed like the rest of the Empire. It was the Colonists unreasonable objection to paying any tax at all that cause problems with this act.

[11nytram11]

The Stamp act had been presented to several prominant Colonist - including Benjamin Franklin - before it had been brought before Parliament. Not opposition to it was raised from them and it was agreed that the act was the easiest way to raise money quickly without cause offense to the colonist, and in fact had been delayed so as not to offend the colonist. The major opposition to it came from radicles such as Samuel Adams but not from the people at large. The act was repealed in less than a year

[11nytram11]

The Proclamation Act of 1763 was not telling the Colonist where they could live but was protecting Native American Land and avoiding conflict. Pontiac's rebellion cemented in the minds of British Government the need for the border to be regulated and peoples west of the Appalachians treated carefully. The line was redawn in 1768 following colonial protested to allow settlement in Western Kentucky. The US heavy handed approach after gaining independence caused many conflicts along the frontier.

[11nytram11]

No Taxation without Representation was just a slogan.

No one in power in the Colonies wanted representation in Parliament because they knew they would have been outnumbered and have no power to achieve anything and no way to cry "Tyrany" when taxes were levelled against them. They specifically told Benjamin Frankin not to accept any deal that would see the Colonies represented in Parliament for that very reason.

It made a good rallying call for the revolutionaries though.

[faisalkfpm]

same in Egypt, if you'd print your college certificate after 6 years of work you need to pay money to do so

[Cambria2007]

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[willyke93]

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[csunshinew]

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[jrnesbit]

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