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    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

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    Were the colonists justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain? After all of the hardship and violence the British imposed on the colonists‚ the Americans were justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain. The Colonists were justified in breaking away because the parliament passed laws that were unjustified‚ The British king was of tyranny‚ The Stamp Act of 1765‚ The Townshend Act and The Boston Massacre. All of this lead to the colonies joining together and rebelling against

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    “fed” because he got money and resources from the colonies with very little work‚ he got “slaughtered” through the revolution because he started asking for too much. The colonists were justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain. Britain treated the colonists unfairly‚ and used their limitless power to harm the colonists. Britain had complete control over the colonies and enforced their power through their armies. Document 5 states‚ “What is to defend us against so enormous‚ so unlimited

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    into a full scale war. Suffering from unjust taxation and tyrannical rule‚ the colonists tried to change and influence the English policy through repeated petitioning and boycotts. After failing to influence England through peaceful measures‚ war was the colonists’ only option. The 13 colonies were therefore justified in starting a revolt against England. According to England however the colonists were not justified in waging war. England was the mother country and the colonists paid the lowest taxes

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    conflict the colonists had with the british made an impact that would change the lives of millions. There are those who say the colonists were not justified for breaking away from the British because of the war they fought for the colonists. However the colonists were justified because the king violated the colonists rights‚ put the colonists in economic parallel and punished them instead of listening to their needs. Through The Enlightenment and the Great awakening the colonists realized that

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    Colonists were mad at Britain because they had much more acts in place caused taxes to raise‚ this took place in the colonies with King George III‚ the colonists got mad and they decided to taunt British soldiers and they also decided to dump tea in a harbor. These two events caused the Revolution to start. What evidence shows why America started the American Revolution? Americans were justified in waging war with Britain because taxes and acts were being put in place one by one rapidly‚ the colonists

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    The colonists were justified in dumping the tea into Boston Harbor. This is because‚ they already had the Stamp Act‚ they didn’t want the tea in the first place‚ and they were just trying to prove a point. If you were forced to do something that you didn’t have a say in‚ would you be angry? If everything you could possibly do to make it stop backfired‚ would you do whatever it takes? This is exactly the kind of frustration the colonists were experiencing. The colonists already had the Stamp Act‚

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    Colonists sought independence from British government for a multitude of reasons. Tension quickly rose between England and the thirteen colonies due to the unjust taxing without fair representation in Parliament‚ the colonist’s rights to assemble were taken away by the British‚ and there were many unreasonable Acts and laws put into place in attempt to have complete control over the colonists as well as intimidate them. For these reasons and the suffering that the colonists endured at the hands of

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    British Had the Right to Tax Prior to the Seven Years War‚ colonials had the upmost pride and respect for being British. After the war‚ the British‚ under new Prime Minister George Grenville‚ began to impose new taxes on the colonials. The British began to tax the Americans in order to regain money needed to pay back debts created during the war. This caused colonists to feel looked down upon‚ as if they were not seen as equal‚ which they were not. Another cause for the British to begin taxing was

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    "Were the American colonists justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain" The colonists were in every right‚ aspect and mind‚ not only justified but also it was about time that they stood of and actually take action against the British. The choice of going to war with them‚ was the only choice that they had. All diplimatical options that they had ceased to stand a chance against the tyrant Britain. From the very beginning when the colonists felt upset against their mother country and

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