Essay Why Was The American Revolution Inevitable

Was the American Revolution Inevitable?
Was the American Revolution inevitable as people today think it was? Some people say that the war was inevitable from the time governors were chosen by the crown. Other people disagree and say that if the crown had been fairer to the colonists, the colonists would not have rebelled, and the American Revolution would not have happened. This paper argues that the American Revolution was inevitable. The American Revolution was inevitable because England kept trying to take full control of a self governing group of people who lived in the colonies. This is evident because Great Britain started raising taxes on stamps, they would not send their soldiers away after the French and Indian War, and the colonies were being taxed but had very little representation in Parliament.
The British and the French fought a war called the French and Indian War or the Seven Years War. During this war the British fell into debt. When the war ended in 1763, the British saw an opportunity to regain some money by taxing the colonies (Benson). These …show more content…
This also matters today because we would not have this story in our history that makes so many people proud to be Americans. This also matters today because it shows how many people had to be provoked to fight a country that had helped them so much and that they had been loyal to for a very long time. The American Revolution was inevitable because the crown was trying to take control of a group of colonists who did not want them to take control of them. They were an “island” trying to control and manipulate a “continent” of people (Paine). They were trying to get a group of people who disliked them to work for them which made some of the colonists dislike each other and the crown even more. This made them, in the end, lose one of their best working