The Real American Revolution
The British American colonists believed that as full British citizens they were equally entitled to the rights and privileges of the British Constitution,but in Great Britain they disagreed,they thought of the colonists as subordinate not equal and that the colonists were intended to serve the mother country.The colonists were frustrated that they were not being recognized as true Britons and felt they were being deprived of their “English Liberties”,quarrels over trade,taxation,and political representation sparked a political movement that led to rebellion from the colonists.The colonists felt that the king and Parliament together were trying to make slaves of them and if they could not be seen as equals to Britain then to what obligations did they have to the mother country.This resistance to king and Parliament was the real American Revolution and by 1776 would
The British American colonists believed that as full British citizens they were equally entitled to the rights and privileges of the British Constitution,but in Great Britain they disagreed,they thought of the colonists as subordinate not equal and that the colonists were intended to serve the mother country.The colonists were frustrated that they were not being recognized as true Britons and felt they were being deprived of their “English Liberties”,quarrels over trade,taxation,and political representation sparked a political movement that led to rebellion from the colonists.The colonists felt that the king and Parliament together were trying to make slaves of them and if they could not be seen as equals to Britain then to what obligations did they have to the mother country.This resistance to king and Parliament was the real American Revolution and by 1776 would