Revolutionary War: The Most Important Events Leading To The Revolutionary Revolution
Option 1
Growing tensions between Great Britain and its 13 colonies in North America would eventually kick-start the Revolutionary War in April of 1775. There were many factors that led to the war like taxes after the French and Indian War, the Boston Massacre and the Intolerable Acts among others. The colonists felt that they were being treated unfair by a government that was all the way across the ocean in England. Parliament’s decisions in England had direct effects on the lives of the colonists and the colonists were fed up with Great Britain’s rule over them. The restrictions placed on the colonies during this time by Great Britain left a bad taste in the mouths of many colonists and would soon lead to the Revolutionary War and the colonists’ independence. Prior to the Revolution, there were a few events that took place that fueled the colonists’ growing frustrations towards Great Britain. One of these events was the Stamp Act in 1765, which was a direct tax placed on the colonies that taxed all paper documents within the colonies. The Stamp Act was put in place to try and recuperate some of the costs from the French and Indian War, which Great Britain was in massive debt from. The British imposed this tax …show more content…
This document was supposed to create a government that “embodied Revolutionary principles” (Source, p. 209), but that ended up not being the case. The federal government was weak under the Articles of Confederation because it did not allow them to do things like tax, regulate commerce between states and foreign powers and they could not enforce acts passed by congress because there was no executive or judiciary. Obviously there were many other problems with the document as well and these problems eventually paved the way for the creation of the United States Constitution and its eventual passing in September of
Growing tensions between Great Britain and its 13 colonies in North America would eventually kick-start the Revolutionary War in April of 1775. There were many factors that led to the war like taxes after the French and Indian War, the Boston Massacre and the Intolerable Acts among others. The colonists felt that they were being treated unfair by a government that was all the way across the ocean in England. Parliament’s decisions in England had direct effects on the lives of the colonists and the colonists were fed up with Great Britain’s rule over them. The restrictions placed on the colonies during this time by Great Britain left a bad taste in the mouths of many colonists and would soon lead to the Revolutionary War and the colonists’ independence. Prior to the Revolution, there were a few events that took place that fueled the colonists’ growing frustrations towards Great Britain. One of these events was the Stamp Act in 1765, which was a direct tax placed on the colonies that taxed all paper documents within the colonies. The Stamp Act was put in place to try and recuperate some of the costs from the French and Indian War, which Great Britain was in massive debt from. The British imposed this tax …show more content…
This document was supposed to create a government that “embodied Revolutionary principles” (Source, p. 209), but that ended up not being the case. The federal government was weak under the Articles of Confederation because it did not allow them to do things like tax, regulate commerce between states and foreign powers and they could not enforce acts passed by congress because there was no executive or judiciary. Obviously there were many other problems with the document as well and these problems eventually paved the way for the creation of the United States Constitution and its eventual passing in September of