Revolution has risen across the world across all ages. From the French to the Russian, most are justified in fighting against the tyrannical government. The definition of tyranny is “cruel or oppressive government rule.” Tyrant is a name pegged to many a ruler, but this may not be the appropriate name for King George III.
While many claim he was a cruel leader, the colonist revolt of the 1770’s in what is now The United States of America was not justified. After the French and Indian war, a war trying to secure land, Britain was in severe debt. As a response to this, they started to tax the colonists heavily, though not as high as the people still living in the orginal Britain.The colonists did not respond to this well. They started a rebellion …show more content…
The colonists were not justified in rebellion. Justified is defined as having, done for, or marked by a good or legitimate reason. One of the many atrocities the colonists claim King George III committed was immoral taxation of the colonies. Yet with looking upon it deeply, finding such taxes is a trouble. The townshend acts were taxes placed upon the colonies. It taxed glass, lead, paints, paper, sugar, and tea. All of them angered the colonists, but especially the tea, paper, and sugar taxes. The stamp act said that all paper must have an official royal stamp on it. This angered judges, lawyers, accountants and other people who worked primarily with paper. “For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be …show more content…
Britain was desperate for money at the time, and the colonies were generally richer than the people in the mainland. While the colonies had a wealth of plantations, Britain was struggling to feed people in its intercity, London. Taxing the colonies was a necessity, and should not be seen as something to be hated, just begrudgingly accepted as a part of normal society. The taxes placed upon the colonists should not be attributed to tyranny, as merely a need of the country to continue to support the government. The Colonists cruelty to Britain as a response to the very laws that protected them, shows that no such nation should have survived on its own. The colonists acted as savages would, destroying goods and harming idle men. When Britain reacted as it should, by enforcing harsher laws as punishment for those crimes, the colonists acte as if they had done nothing wrong at all, and instead were victims of a terrible attack by Britain. The Boston Massacre, for example, was pegged as an attack on helpless bystanders by local colonist newspaper, but this propaganda is far from the truth. It was the colonists
While many claim he was a cruel leader, the colonist revolt of the 1770’s in what is now The United States of America was not justified. After the French and Indian war, a war trying to secure land, Britain was in severe debt. As a response to this, they started to tax the colonists heavily, though not as high as the people still living in the orginal Britain.The colonists did not respond to this well. They started a rebellion …show more content…
The colonists were not justified in rebellion. Justified is defined as having, done for, or marked by a good or legitimate reason. One of the many atrocities the colonists claim King George III committed was immoral taxation of the colonies. Yet with looking upon it deeply, finding such taxes is a trouble. The townshend acts were taxes placed upon the colonies. It taxed glass, lead, paints, paper, sugar, and tea. All of them angered the colonists, but especially the tea, paper, and sugar taxes. The stamp act said that all paper must have an official royal stamp on it. This angered judges, lawyers, accountants and other people who worked primarily with paper. “For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be …show more content…
Britain was desperate for money at the time, and the colonies were generally richer than the people in the mainland. While the colonies had a wealth of plantations, Britain was struggling to feed people in its intercity, London. Taxing the colonies was a necessity, and should not be seen as something to be hated, just begrudgingly accepted as a part of normal society. The taxes placed upon the colonists should not be attributed to tyranny, as merely a need of the country to continue to support the government. The Colonists cruelty to Britain as a response to the very laws that protected them, shows that no such nation should have survived on its own. The colonists acted as savages would, destroying goods and harming idle men. When Britain reacted as it should, by enforcing harsher laws as punishment for those crimes, the colonists acte as if they had done nothing wrong at all, and instead were victims of a terrible attack by Britain. The Boston Massacre, for example, was pegged as an attack on helpless bystanders by local colonist newspaper, but this propaganda is far from the truth. It was the colonists