Events Leading to the American Revolutionary War

WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com A brief Imovie on the events leading up to the Rev. war.

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[jrnesbit]

dont make the music louder than narrator....

[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.

[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]

@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.

[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 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 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.