Cause Of The American Revolution

Causes of the American Revolution On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence, which stimulated the revolution of American freedom from Great Britain. The motives for why the colonists felt it was crucial to start a revolution of independence are contradicted by both the opinions of the British, and the opinions of the American colonists themselves. Although there are numerous documents supporting the British that state the colonists were at fault and are overreacting, the colonists had stronger arguments for their reasons of hate towards Great Britain, and their justification for righteously waging war against the British. The American colonists became fed up with everything that was unjustifiably …show more content…
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 …show more content…
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