...The War of Independence Today, July 4th is seen as Independence Day, a day of feast and celebration. But in the 1700’s it was no definitely no celebration. The American Revolution was the revoke the thirteen colonies had made against Britain leading to the war. Although Britain had control over the colonies they took advantage of their power by passing new laws and enforcing tax on almost everything, the colonies were outraged and then revolted these were some of the many causes that lead to the war. The three main causes of the War of Independence were the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, and the Quebec Act because they made the colonists angry at Britain. To start off, one of the main causes of the War of Independence was the Quebec Act because it expanded Quebec’s borders and allowed the free practice of the Catholic faith making the colonist angry as a unity (Hickman). The thirteen colonies were furious at the fact that Britain was helping Quebec by giving them the Aboriginal land that was considered theirs (Browns). Not only did this make the colonists mad but they felt betrayed, many people believed the land should be theirs because they were there first and thought it was really unfair (Elementary). Not only this but, many colonists thought it was unfair that there was no elected assembly for Quebec and their French speaking language (Elementary). The colonist couldn’t believe that the French still lost against Britain but were given all these privileges. The French...
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...The Stamp Act began to tax the American colonies to alleviate the debt of the French and Indian War. However, it sparked anger in the colonies who began to form angry mobs. Riots began to break out and they headed for the stamp officials who were responsible for enforcing the act. The colonials threatened tax collectors, destroying the homes of Thomas Hutchinson and Andrew Oliver. Hutcherson’s recall on the Stamp Act reveals the violent measures that the colonists took as a means of protest. Hutcherson describes the damage that they caused “Everything that was in the house; demolished every part of it, except the walls, as far as lay in their power; and had begun to break away from the brickwork.” Since Britain began to impose taxes without...
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...Then, after the Declaratory Act came the Townshend Acts, placing taxes on all imported goods. The colonists were angered and boycotted all imported goods. In response to the colonist’s actions, King George sent more of his troops to the colonies to maintain order. Not long after their arrival, the Boston Massacre occurred. The Boston Massacre was not really a massacre. In fact, it wasn’t officially called a massacre until 1773, 3 years after the event occurred. The Sons of Liberty, a secret organization formed to protect the rights of the colonists, used the event as propaganda to convince more people to join them. As seen in the picture in document 3, pictures illustrated the Boston Massacre as if the British soldiers had lined up and aimed their rifles purposefully at the colonists in an attempt to kill them all which was highly exaggerated. A little while after the Boston Massacre came the Tea Act, which technically lowered the price of tea, but nonetheless angered the colonists. In the colonists’ eyes, the British Parliament taxed an international item as a way to show their power. In response to the Tea Act, the Sons of Liberty organized the Boston tea Party where they dressed as Indians and poured 342 chests of tea into the Boston River. That angered King George, so he placed the Intolerable...
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...justified in going to war against Britain for their freedom. Although the British and Colonist are both faulty in their actions against each other, the colonist deserved their freedom. The colonist proved their need to be independent through the Bloody Massacre, the Quartering Act, the Tea Act, the Stamp Act, and finally the Intolerable Acts.These Acts proved that the colonist earned their right to go to war because they were ruled unfairly by Britain. The Stamp Act acted like the first domino to fall in making the colonist realize they needed their freedom.The Stamp Act wasn’t the first act that required colonist to pay taxes but it was the first Act that taxed colonist directly. The problem wasn’t the money. By all means, the British people were paying more than ten times what the colonist were required to pay. The problem was the fact that the British were trying to control the colonist who in the past had made their own decisions for themselves. The Stamp Act placed duties on paper items. Every Time the colonist bought a piece of paper on any paper items they would have to pay for an official stamp.Although this act wasn’t much, the colonist were truly angered. In 1773,the Tea Act was passed. The colonist...
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...taxes on colonists in America because of the damage of the French and Indian War to the British. There were laws that were meant for Great Britain to get money from the colonists which were known as the Sugar Act and Stamp Act, ___ the colonists did not like the laws. Since both colonies wanted different things this led to the Boston Massacre. After a couple of years the Boston Party happened and the Parliament passed the Coercive Acts which led to the Revolution war. The British gained lots of territory in North America from the French and Indian war but it also put them in debt so they hoped to recover by taxing the colonist. So they raised money by passing the Sugar Act and Stamp Act onto American colonist. The sugar act was used helped the parliament restock the Treasury….. This act placed taxes on sugar imported from the West Indies. However...
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...The Boston Massacre took place on the evening of March 5, 1770. This rebellion resulted in the killing of around five colonists and it raised the tensions even more between the colonists and the British government, which later on lead to the awareness of a possible American Revolution. The question to be addressed in this research paper is which were the major events that over time lead to the Boston Massacre, such as the “Stamp Act of 1765”, “Quartering Act of 1765”, and the “Townshend Act of 1767”. The British Parliament introduced the “Stamp Act of 1765”, this new act had the main purpose to help the British crown pay the expenses of the results from the “French and Indian War”. This new introduction by the British Parliament resulted in a negative reaction from the people of the colonies. They believed that this new Act was just a justification to obtain more money from the colonies and continue to benefit only the Mother Country. Also, they believed that the British crown had no right to tax them due to the fact that they weren’t allowed to choose their representatives (“No Taxation Without Representation”). Riots and protests were very popular during this time period especially aggressive actions toward the tax officials. This actions later lead to the arrive of more British troops to prevent more revolts and maintain a...
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...included: Navigation acts, French and Indian war, Pontiac’s rebellion, Sugar act, Stamp act, Declaratory act, Townsend act, Boston massacre, Boston tea party, and the Intolerable acts. These events all played an important role leading up to the revolutionary war. This will explain the importance of these conflicts, and this will express my thoughts and opinions on these events. The first act that took place was the navigation acts of 1660. The first major event that started the process to the revolutionary war was...
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...Have you ever imagined what it’d be like to live during the American Revolution? Well, at first it was peaceful, until the unfair taxation and fighting broke out. Included in this all are the following; The Navigation acts, The French and Indian war, Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763, The sugar act, The stamp act, The Declaratory act, The Townsend act, The Boston massacre, The Boston tea party, And the Intolerable acts. It was a time of chaos for the colonists. The first thing that happened was the Navigation act. The Navigation act of 1660 Was the Navigation act that bad? Yes, yes it was. The Navigation act of 1660 was the first act passed on the colonies. It made it so colonists had to use English ships when they...
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...The Boston Massacre was a crucial event in shaping the American Revolutionary War. The massacre occurred when British soldiers opened fire on the townspeople of Boston, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. There were many events leading up to the massacre and many resounding effects. Tensions in Boston had been steadily rising with the implantation of taxes, the boycott of British goods, the Liberty riot, and the occupation of Boston by British troops leading to the Boston Massacre, which provided martyrs for freedom and gained support for war throughout the colonies. The taxation of Britain on the American colonists was the start of a series of events leading to the Boston Massacre. Taxes started being imposed after the French and Indian War,...
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...The Boston Massacre was an event of great significance in American history, as it marked a turning point in the mounting tensions between American Colonists and British soldiers that eventually led to the Revolutionary War. On the fateful night of March 5, 1770, a tragic clash between British soldiers and a group of American Colonists in Boston, Massachusetts resulted in the loss of five civilian lives. This event served as a catalyst that further escalated disputes and tension between the two groups. However, despite the tragedy, the aftermath of the Boston Massacre set legal processes in motion that led to a transformation of the justice system in colonial America, leaving a lasting legacy that still resonates today. Following the Boston Massacre, a series of high-profile legal cases...
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...By 1770 Boston was no longer Winthrop’s ‘city upon a hill’ whose citizenry had a covenant with God. Instead, Boston was the commercial and political epicentre of the Thirteen Colonies, and had been engulfed by a hot atmosphere of colonial discontent at the British, brought about by years of war, taxes and occupation. The discontent boiled over into riot on the evening of 5 March 1770, when Captain Thomas Preston and his seven guards arrived to relieve a Sentinel of his harassers amidst taunts of “you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare!” from an ever-swelling crowd of eighty. One of Preston’s men responded to being struck with a weapon by firing into the crowd. The ensuing chaos left five colonists dead, six more injured and the city inflamed. Whilst it is almost certain that Preston didn’t order his men to fire, he would have faded into the mists of history, had his innocence not been later challenged during the American Revolution. Patriots idolised and misconstrued the incident; John Adams claims it laid “the foundation of American independence” from their British tyrants. Their flawed imageries of the so-called ‘Boston Massacre’ reverberated across the Thirteen Colonies, and it’s the idealism they propagated more so than the incident itself which stirred colonists to revolting against the Crown. The odds had never in Preston’s favour that faithful night, indeed it was a mixture of the provocative taunts from the ever-swelling crowd and the darkness that...
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...which ended in 1763, the British needed to collect taxes in order to pay for soldiers to defend the newly won land. In addition it would only be just for the British government to have the colonists pay a tax after protecting them from the French. However, the American colonists, did not want taxation without representation, so they took matters into their own hands to revolt and free themselves from British rule. The first piece of evidence that proves that the colonists were not justified in revolting is from the Stamp Act Documents, Source B. Published by the London Paper in January 27, 1766, this primary source letter was later republished by the Boston Gazette Supplement. Initially the document was written to inform the people of England about the anger in the American colonies against the Stamp Act. In the letter, the author states, “I would have been less surprised by their behavior if we had taxed their beer, because everyone drinks beer. But the Stamp Act is a tax on none of the necessities of life. It does not affect the poor. And even a poor person can afford this little amount of money.” The language in the document shows the disbelief of the author....
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...continued to fester as the the British Parliament began heavily taxing all their goods and commodities. Then only a few years later shooting down five colonist during, what we now know, as the Boston Massacre. The colonists became so upset that they began retaliating with acts of vengenace such as the the Boston Tea party. Ultimately the taxes, the Boston Massacre, and the the Boston Tea Party put together strained the relationship between the 2 colonies so much so that they ended up finding themselves in a revolution. Leading to the Revolution, Britian passed many taxes that outraged the citizens. The first of which being the Sugar Act was...
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...against wrongful taxation, the Sons of Liberty established America’s freedom. A strong rebellion created and nourished by the Sons of Liberty in 18th century America represents one of the greatest achievements of civil disobedience. The group of shopkeepers, rebels, and artisans met in the Summer of 1965 to discuss the problems with the recently imposed Stamp Act and Sugar Act. The Stamp Act required that paper products used in the colonies, such as...
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...motion a series of events that would ultimately begin the American Revolution. From 1763 to 1767 there were a series of taxes placed upon the colonists in order to increase British revenue. The first of these taxes was the Revenue Act in 1763. The Revenue Act simply stated that the British throne now had the power to tax the colonies. This led to the Sugar Act in 1764. The Sugar Act placed taxes on goods such as sugar, molasses, and rum. It also gave customs officials Writs of Assistance that allowed them to board merchant ships at will and search for any of these goods if they were untaxed. If the officials found anything, the merchant was taken to court in Britain, not America. This was the beginning of the British impeding colonial rights. The Stamp Act of 1765 was a tax on anything with paper that required a stamp. Although this act did not destroy the American economy, the colonists were upset that this act was a clear demonstration of the throne acting on its own interests and harming the good of the people. The Sons of Liberty were founded in protest of the Stamp Act and would become instrumental in beginning the Revolutionary War. Because the colonists were outraged, Parliament issued the Declaratory Act in 1766. This act repealed the Stamp Act, but declared it a right of the British government to levy taxes on the American colonies. The last of the major...
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