Later on in history after new acts had been enforced on the colonists as more ways to get more money, the colonists became even more agitated. The thing that upset the colonists the most was the fact that they had taxation without representation, and no say in Parliament. During the Boston Massacre in 1770, a street fight occurred between the British troops, and men in Boston. An engraving by Paul Revere shows how defenseless the colonists were against the guns of the trained British troops. However, a description about the Boston massacre from a seemingly British point of view said that, “a crowd of Boston boys and men surrounded a number of British soldiers and began taunting them and cursing them while they pelted them with snowballs….. frightened soldiers fired into the crowd…” With this, the description is saying that the colonists were in fact armed (with rocks and snowballs keep in mind), and were aiming their “weapons” against the trained British soldiers, and the soldiers were at no fault for firing back. The original engraving shows (that even though the colonists may have had snowball and rocks), they were in fact defenseless compared to the British soldiers who had even killed a few people after the massacre ended. All of this would by all means anger the American colonists even more, resulting in a necessary revolution. An additional reason as to why the American colonists had a right to rebel against Great Britain is that the colonists kept asking, but Great Britain kept ignoring. As said in the Declaration of Independence, which was passed on July 4, 1776, “in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress …show more content…
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