American Independence DBQ

[introduction] The fight for American Independence began in 1765. However, Americans have long been fighting for their freedom many years before the war actually begun. They were tired of being under British Rule. The main cause of the war dates back in the early 1760s, when the British continuously taxed the colonies. They felt that it was the colonies duty to help pay for the Seven Years War that had just passed. Unfortunately, the British didn’t know that taxing the colonies was only going to create more issues. Between the years of 1763 and 1783 America underwent a series of changes that lead to its independence from England.
[body 1] The first tax placed directly on the colonies was the Stamp Act, which americans quickly responded to with protesting. Some acts of protesting were peaceful, using only three simple words written across a teapot (Doc 1). Other acts of protesting turned …show more content…
They believed it was natural for man to want to be free from any type of authority. Ironically, the people fighting for their freedom (the Patriots) were the same people who threatened others to join them in the fight against the British government (Doc 5). In reality, many colonist had no independence from the british nor from their fellow colonist.
[conclusion] By the time the American Revolution took place, Americans were long fed up with the british and their obsessive taxation. The colonies were ready to be free and govern themselves. Unfortunately, they had no idea how hard that was going to be. Once the war was over and the colonies now could govern themselves they faced economic issues that left them wondering if they should have stayed under british government. Being a new country and being left in debt caused them to become just like what they were fighting. The colonist government now had to tax their own people (Doc