What Was America's Role In The Revolutionary War

It’s the late 1700s early 1800s, and I guess you could say America is in the beginning stages of a long and rocky marriage with a later desperate struggle for independence. The French and Indian War has ended, and America has its lovely new ally Britain to thank in part. They both believed that the war on their end was a great success, but both saw their input on the war a bit differently. The British felt that they not only fought hard, but there was a significant financial loss in helping save the colonists in this war. The colonists on the other hand thought they did spectacularly and that they would be able to reward themselves with expanding settlements, but the British were ready to get what was theirs first. Prior to 1964 the British …show more content…
What they once saw as an ally was now helping themselves a little more than was necessary. They believed this to also be unfair since they did not have a representative in the British Parliament, so to them no representative meant no fair taxation, therefore adopting the motto “No Taxation without Representation.” Now the colonists are upset, but they were not going to just sit and be walked all over, they stood up and protested these new laws and taxes. In 1765 a group of protesters known as the “Sons of Liberty” formed and soon had a semi large following. At one memorable protest in 1770 there was a massacre in where several colonists were shot and killed, this became known as the Boston Massacre. This turning point is what led to the bigger acts of defiance from the colonists when the British imposed a tax on tea in 1773. No longer silenced, the colonists led by the sons of liberty jumped aboard the ship carrying the tea, and dumped it into the water of the Boston Harbor. In response to this chaos, instead of listening the British government imposes yet another set of laws known as the Intolerable Acts, go