Why Were The Colonists Justified In The Revolutionary War
Even though the colonists were breaking British law, the colonists had a right to rebel for they were unfairly taxed without representation and subjected to a king over 3000 miles away. Some people still on both the colonials and the British crown were attempting to avoid a full scale war even after they had begun fighting, like in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Most of the colonists did not want war because these were the people that they had been living with, and protected by the British for over 150 years and the idea of being alone and self governing was hard for the colonists to comprehend and prepare for. Though that was how most felt about the situation at the time, neither side would budge or compromise.
The British taxed the colonists
after years of being lackadaisical with their taxation and then once they tried to tighten their grip on laws, the colonists were outraged by this, and to make things worse they didn’t have a say in any law passed on taxation on themselves. There were many things that justified what the colonists did such as the Tea Act of 1775, Stamp Acts, Intolerable Acts, and so on. The French and Indian War was the last straw with the British in dealing with the problems that the colonists were creating for them. The colonists were like immature kids and would pick fights that they couldn’t finish. This forced the British to make the taxes on the colonists both more expensive and on more things to help their own economic gain, which made it possible for them to station troops where they were needed, to protect the colonists from enemies and themselves. These taxes no matter what they financed made the colonists angry with Britain's Parliament.
With the end of the war came Britain’s need to enforce some tougher taxes and rules on all colonial citizens. They did this by establishing the Plantation Act of 1764; this was also known as the Revenue Act, or the Sugar Act. This was something that caught the colonists off-guard. It was one of many new acts set in force by Britain’s Parliament to try and force the colonists to support themselves, instead of Britain becoming bankrupt. This was important because they were at the time the strongest empire in the entire world, and what the colonists were doing for the British empire would not be categorized as pro-economical. All they were doing to the British pockets was just cleaning them out. They would go and explore and venture into land that was either controlled by Native American Indians or the French which inhabited land mostly in what today is known as Canada.
The way that the British went about enforcing their laws and conditions in the acts was very idiotic in that they tried to make them go from almost being free and following some easy guidelines and rules, to making them pay for Britain and anything that they felt the need to pass just to get by economically. The Plantation Act or better known as the Sugar Act was where the British government prohibited any importing of foreign rum, and a threepence tax on molasses, and a much higher tax on refined sugar. This was an extreme inconvenience for the colonists because they got a very high percentage of their rum from foreign countries.
The British taxed the colonists
after years of being lackadaisical with their taxation and then once they tried to tighten their grip on laws, the colonists were outraged by this, and to make things worse they didn’t have a say in any law passed on taxation on themselves. There were many things that justified what the colonists did such as the Tea Act of 1775, Stamp Acts, Intolerable Acts, and so on. The French and Indian War was the last straw with the British in dealing with the problems that the colonists were creating for them. The colonists were like immature kids and would pick fights that they couldn’t finish. This forced the British to make the taxes on the colonists both more expensive and on more things to help their own economic gain, which made it possible for them to station troops where they were needed, to protect the colonists from enemies and themselves. These taxes no matter what they financed made the colonists angry with Britain's Parliament.
With the end of the war came Britain’s need to enforce some tougher taxes and rules on all colonial citizens. They did this by establishing the Plantation Act of 1764; this was also known as the Revenue Act, or the Sugar Act. This was something that caught the colonists off-guard. It was one of many new acts set in force by Britain’s Parliament to try and force the colonists to support themselves, instead of Britain becoming bankrupt. This was important because they were at the time the strongest empire in the entire world, and what the colonists were doing for the British empire would not be categorized as pro-economical. All they were doing to the British pockets was just cleaning them out. They would go and explore and venture into land that was either controlled by Native American Indians or the French which inhabited land mostly in what today is known as Canada.
The way that the British went about enforcing their laws and conditions in the acts was very idiotic in that they tried to make them go from almost being free and following some easy guidelines and rules, to making them pay for Britain and anything that they felt the need to pass just to get by economically. The Plantation Act or better known as the Sugar Act was where the British government prohibited any importing of foreign rum, and a threepence tax on molasses, and a much higher tax on refined sugar. This was an extreme inconvenience for the colonists because they got a very high percentage of their rum from foreign countries.