Reasons Why The American Revolution Was Justified

Many things bad and good has happened that led up to the American Revolution. Although Things done by the English were most likely done with good intentions, they were not good. The American Revolution was justified. There are many reasons to why the American Revolution was justified. One reason is that the Acts that England put in place were unreasonable. The Tea Act and the Sugar Act were good examples of it. They were both put in place with out their consent. With the Tea Act ,taxes rose up on tea. The colonists did not want to pay more. The Sugar Act was also about raising taxes on the colonists. It was made to replace the Molasses Act. It made it nearly impossible to buy anything. The colonists had to resort to smuggling goods to pay at an unreasonable price. Another reason the Revolution was justified was the unnecessary taxations. One result of the taxations were various tea parties, specifically the Boston Tea Party. Colonists dressed as Indians, stole boxes of tea and tossed them into the water. “Of the evening of Monday, being the 5th current, several soldiers of the 29th regiment were seen parading the streets with their drawn cutlasses and abusing and wounding numbers of the town”. With the taxations, colonists had to pay more, especially …show more content…
The Boston Massacre was one of them. It was caused by the presence of British soldiers. “…Demonstration of the destructive consequences of quartering troops among citizens in the time of Peace”. When the Quartering Act was put in place it let the British Soldiers stay at colonist’s houses. The colonists did not want them there and expressed themselves through the Declaration and Resolves of the first continental congress, along many other issues. With the Quartering Act it was possible that people could get tried in England instead of in the Colonies. That was a problem because people in the England did not know what was going in the