White Americans In The 1770 Essay

By the 1770’s white and African Americans had polarized views of the British government’s intentions with the American colonies. In the years before the 1770’s, Americans of all races had accepted British colonial rule and it laws that governed the colonies. In the years leading up to 1770, the British began to increasingly exert the authority over the colonies through new taxes. These taxes eventually lead to civil unrest in the colonies and the call for colonial independence. In the 1770’s white Americans were tired of British rule and wanted their freedom, similarly African American slaves wanted freedom from white their American oppressors.
In the years leading up to the 1770’s, the British increasingly began to look to the American colonies a source of revenue. This view lead many white Americans to believe that the British authority was over stepping their bounds and infringing on their freedom. The view of a revenue source can be clearly seen in the British Revenue Act, more commonly known in the American colonies as the “Sugar Act”. This law lowered the import tax on French molasses to lessen smuggling and promote paying the tax. This tax was the first in a series of taxes that colonial Americans viewed as an intrusion into normal practices of the colonies. Since the “Sugar Act” did not gain as …show more content…
White Americans were tired of British oppression and laws. Similarly African Americans were done being slaves under white American rule. Both of these groups found the answer to their problem by earning their freedom. The issue that they both struggled with was the same, they were finished being ruled over by an oppressive system. The system for white Americans was the British government, and for African Americans it was the whites. Both of these groups were struggling attain freedom, making their claims equally