America Revolution “Give me liberty, or give me death” were the immortal words of Patrick Henry as he insisted for preparations for war against England. Problems between the King of England and the united thirteen colonists started when the King began to heavily tax the colonists after the French and Indian war. The King would also use his armies to enforce his rules over the colonists. This angered the colonists and was one of the compelling reasons that drove them closer to wanting separation from their motherland. The colonist began to boycott British goods and preceded to outright rebel against England, in result the American Revolution was fought for the freedom and liberty of the American colonists. The road to revolution was built
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To avoid the tax strugglers would try to smuggle more and more products; leading to more troops in Boston. Tensions quickly led to violence and indirectly to the Boston Massacre of 1770, when an angry mob provoked a soldier to fire openly into a crowd of people. One of the biggest forms of rebellion the colonists showed towards the British was the Boston Tea Party of 1773. A group of colonists disguised as American Indians got on a British ship at night and threw the tea overboard into the harbor, ruining all of it. The Boston Tea Party was an act of rebellion that Britain and the colonies would never recover and the King of England was quick to punish the colonies with the Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts were another main cause for the American Revolution, the Intolerable Acts consisted of The Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston until the Dutch East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea; The Massachusetts Government Act, putting the government of Massachusetts almost entirely under direct British control; The Administration of Justice Act, allowing royal officials to be tried in Britain if the king felt it necessary for fair justice; The Quartering Act, ordering the colonies to provide lodging for British soldiers and The Quebec Act, expanding British territory in Canada and guaranteeing the free practice of Roman Catholicism. Opposition was far too high for the king to respond positively so he colonists knew they needed to begin collecting arms and preparing for what they felt was a foreseeable battle with the British
To avoid the tax strugglers would try to smuggle more and more products; leading to more troops in Boston. Tensions quickly led to violence and indirectly to the Boston Massacre of 1770, when an angry mob provoked a soldier to fire openly into a crowd of people. One of the biggest forms of rebellion the colonists showed towards the British was the Boston Tea Party of 1773. A group of colonists disguised as American Indians got on a British ship at night and threw the tea overboard into the harbor, ruining all of it. The Boston Tea Party was an act of rebellion that Britain and the colonies would never recover and the King of England was quick to punish the colonies with the Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts were another main cause for the American Revolution, the Intolerable Acts consisted of The Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston until the Dutch East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea; The Massachusetts Government Act, putting the government of Massachusetts almost entirely under direct British control; The Administration of Justice Act, allowing royal officials to be tried in Britain if the king felt it necessary for fair justice; The Quartering Act, ordering the colonies to provide lodging for British soldiers and The Quebec Act, expanding British territory in Canada and guaranteeing the free practice of Roman Catholicism. Opposition was far too high for the king to respond positively so he colonists knew they needed to begin collecting arms and preparing for what they felt was a foreseeable battle with the British