Seven Years War Boston Speech Analysis

During the periods between the end of the Seven Years War and the American Revolution, the colonies began to use no taxation without representation as both a primary force motivating the American revolutionary movement and a symbol for democracy. After the Seven Years War, the colonies began to realize their representation in Parliament was very limited, as they were being taxed against their will. Then, as thoughts of a Revolution heightened, the colonies began to realize their representation would never come, and eventually moved towards the idea of a completely separate state. As the Revolution came to an end, the African Americans also began to realize they too had a right to be represented in the American democracy. The colonists went …show more content…
In Joseph Warren’s Boston speech, He explains that the colonies had no reason to tax them as they were free citizens. He alludes to the Declaratory Act as he says the King used one act to give reason for the others. Warren points out how they were being treated as inferior and unjust as the British sent troops in their colonies during time of peace. So, he debates why comply when Parliament isn’t going to listen. After a year of listening to speeches such as these, advocates of the Boston Tea Party finally made their protest on the Boston Harbor a year later (4). In the Second Continental Congress’ Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, the Congress explains why the colonies should fight England for their freedom and rights. The colonist are deprived of trial of jury since Parliament is giving away their money even though they have the right to dispose of it on their own. Law were being passed to extend rule over maritime court privileges beyond what they were already given. England had even taken away a legislator from one of the colonies, and had diverted all colonial commerce to England. The King had even alternated his given charters governments, restricting the colonists’ rights even more. As more colonies began to realize these facts, they moved even closer towards wanting independence, and the Declaration of Independence was signed a year later (5). In Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, he plainly states that America should be independent from England. Because America can take care of itself, they need not be under the jurisdiction of England. He uses the size in contrast of popular history. Usually the big fish, in this case America, eats the small fish, in this case England. England is a big fish to islands, to the smaller countries, but Paine explains that