American Independence
The first time America was explored was by Englishmen looking for goods such as gold, and silver as well as a water way to Asia, they decided to stay but times were tough and people had very limited food and water until soon after more people arrived and decided that British were here to stay. By the year 1776 the colonists who had come to settle this land were being ruled under the British and frustrated by the fact that they were still being ruled by the king who was all the way in Britain.
It was necessary for America to claim independence because the colonists were being treated unfairly and deserved better circumstances. A quote that showed they were being treated unfairly was “taxation without representation” this basically means they are being taxed and have no say whether they want this or not. The reason all this laws were being put into place was because Britain was running out of money due to being engaged in a number of wars against the French in Europe, India, and North America these wars were very expensive so Britain decided to tax many things such as tea, and stamps which impacted the colonists and angered them (History.com). This shows that the colonists were actually being treated very unfairly because they were limited and restricted from many things, or they had to pay much more something as …show more content…
So they could not send anyone to go and discuss all these unfair tax laws and restrictions that were passed. When an unfair law was passed such as the stamp act and the tea tax colonists could not do anything about it and had to pay for it, the only way out was protests and riots which is what the colonists did. Another added reason was that logically it did not make sense that Britain a country thats land size is much smaller than America a much larger country being ruled by such a small
The first time America was explored was by Englishmen looking for goods such as gold, and silver as well as a water way to Asia, they decided to stay but times were tough and people had very limited food and water until soon after more people arrived and decided that British were here to stay. By the year 1776 the colonists who had come to settle this land were being ruled under the British and frustrated by the fact that they were still being ruled by the king who was all the way in Britain.
It was necessary for America to claim independence because the colonists were being treated unfairly and deserved better circumstances. A quote that showed they were being treated unfairly was “taxation without representation” this basically means they are being taxed and have no say whether they want this or not. The reason all this laws were being put into place was because Britain was running out of money due to being engaged in a number of wars against the French in Europe, India, and North America these wars were very expensive so Britain decided to tax many things such as tea, and stamps which impacted the colonists and angered them (History.com). This shows that the colonists were actually being treated very unfairly because they were limited and restricted from many things, or they had to pay much more something as …show more content…
So they could not send anyone to go and discuss all these unfair tax laws and restrictions that were passed. When an unfair law was passed such as the stamp act and the tea tax colonists could not do anything about it and had to pay for it, the only way out was protests and riots which is what the colonists did. Another added reason was that logically it did not make sense that Britain a country thats land size is much smaller than America a much larger country being ruled by such a small