The war for independence in America, known as the American Revolution marked the end of the British rule over the colonies in America. After the British victory in the seven years’ war in America which ended in 1763, British government gained massive power over America, having massive land space and high population of migrants from Britain and American colonists. Not for long, the American colonists began to get frustrated of being ruled by the British government who had been imposing taxes upon the American colonies through goods, ’the imposing of these taxes on goods was called were of different acts by the British, the sugar act, stamp act and Townshend Act’, Americans saw the taxations as an abuse of power by the British government making
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In attempt of Britain to reassert its authority, parliament passed ‘The Coercive Act’, serving as a punishment of the colonists who referred this as ‘The Intolerable Act’. This caused great difficulty for America for it crippled the economy. This punishment by the British involved closing down of the port in Boston only to be reopened when the colonist have paid back every amount of the cost of the tea that was dumped into the ocean. The punishment also involved stopping of town hall meetings in Massachusetts because the British believed the colony was too democratic and limited them to having only meetings only once in a year when they usually had one every month. These British actions made the colonial to come to believe that they were being …show more content…
After the blood shed at Lexington and concord, Colonials got committed to a course of rebellion and independence. That was the conclusion drawn my Thomas Paine who urged others to join the rebellion. Thomas Paine published a pamphlet named ‘The common sense’. The common sense talked about the colonist braving up, uniting with one another, to declare their independence and create a different type of political form of Government. This pamphlet gained a lot of popularity selling over 100,000 copies.
On the 10th of May 1775, delegates to the second continental congress gathered at Philadelphia, a month after the battles at Lexington and Concord, this gathering involved the talks about the best ways to protect their colonies, independence was their greatest goal. The second continental congress adopted the ‘Olive Branch Petition’ in July of 1775 which affirmed American loyalty to the British king. They asked the king to disavow policies of his principal ministers but at the same time, congress issued a declaration denying that the colonies aimed at independence but less than a month earlier, congress had authorized the creation of a rebel military force known as ‘The Continental Military”. This plan by the congress was a move to prepare for war but this
In attempt of Britain to reassert its authority, parliament passed ‘The Coercive Act’, serving as a punishment of the colonists who referred this as ‘The Intolerable Act’. This caused great difficulty for America for it crippled the economy. This punishment by the British involved closing down of the port in Boston only to be reopened when the colonist have paid back every amount of the cost of the tea that was dumped into the ocean. The punishment also involved stopping of town hall meetings in Massachusetts because the British believed the colony was too democratic and limited them to having only meetings only once in a year when they usually had one every month. These British actions made the colonial to come to believe that they were being …show more content…
After the blood shed at Lexington and concord, Colonials got committed to a course of rebellion and independence. That was the conclusion drawn my Thomas Paine who urged others to join the rebellion. Thomas Paine published a pamphlet named ‘The common sense’. The common sense talked about the colonist braving up, uniting with one another, to declare their independence and create a different type of political form of Government. This pamphlet gained a lot of popularity selling over 100,000 copies.
On the 10th of May 1775, delegates to the second continental congress gathered at Philadelphia, a month after the battles at Lexington and Concord, this gathering involved the talks about the best ways to protect their colonies, independence was their greatest goal. The second continental congress adopted the ‘Olive Branch Petition’ in July of 1775 which affirmed American loyalty to the British king. They asked the king to disavow policies of his principal ministers but at the same time, congress issued a declaration denying that the colonies aimed at independence but less than a month earlier, congress had authorized the creation of a rebel military force known as ‘The Continental Military”. This plan by the congress was a move to prepare for war but this