What Caused The American Revolution

One of the most widely known events that have occurred in the United States is the American Revolution. The purpose of that is due to the many sources of its occurrence. The American Revolution was a war that was fought for the independence of Americans, a war that had various triggers. Many colonists were fed up with the treatment that they endured from the British and decided to rise up and fight for their strong cause. In short, the American Revolution was an uprising that was brought upon by unfair treatment of the colonists from the British King and Parliament, lack of representation in Parliament, and unjust actions of British soldiers towards American colonists. Among the most famous causes for the American Revolution lack of representation
in Parliament was a major contribution to the Colonists’ anger. The Colonists’ believed that if they were a part of the British, they should be treated with proper presentation. The colonists had no say for the electives of parliament, which meant they had no say in taxes that were being placed on them. This greatly angered the colonists; they felt that they deserved representation and such things that came along with it. However, the British thought since they fought the French and Indian War and protected the colonists in the process, that they should have helped pay for war; if not directly then indirectly. The British also didn’t consider the colonist as true people of England, so they denied the colonists their representation. This stirred up one of many of the disputes between the British and the colonists. In addition to the colonists’ lack of representation, they were also treated unjustly by the British King and Parliament. In order to tax the colonist for the French and Indian war, the British King and Parliament imposed a direct taxation them from which the money was directly collected by the British government; which of course only resulted in enragement from the colonist. To counteract the direct taxation, the King and Parliament decided to indirectly tax the colonist on everyday necessities that the colonists needed. The King and Parliament thought that they could place taxes on the colonists without detection, but they were gravely mistaken. The colonists knew immediately, and were outraged at the British attempt to clandestinely place taxes on them. Along with this enragement from the direct and indirect taxes, the British also held a biased court ruling for the trial of the Boston Massacre. It was British soldiers being tried for crimes against American colonists that was held in a British court, which biasedly ruled in the favor of the British soldiers despite the death of 5 American colonists.