There is no one event that can be said to have caused The American Revolution. As the colonies continued to grow, as did the tensions between the colonists and the British. The roughly 3,000 miles between the colonies and Great Britain definitely gave the colonists an independent mindset from the very beginning. And although its impossible to pinpoint the single event that let to The American Revolution, there are many that stand out as major contributors to the start of this war. Colonial legislatures, The French and Indian war, The Boston Massacre, The Tea Act, and The Boston Tea Party were just some of the major factors and causes of The American Revolution. The distance between Britain and North America created the need for a localized
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An increase of british troops within the colonies of this magnitude would have upset even the people of a colony that was happy with their government thus far. The difference was that by this point the british and the americans were already at eachothers throats. these british soldiers saw themselves as above the law and definitely did not help the situation by constantly antagonizing the colonists. On March 5th, 1770, a young man named Edward Garrick insulted a British soldier who responded by hitting him in the head with the butt of his rifle. Garrick then went and round up a large group of colonists and returned to the soldier that had just struck him. The soldier, who was threatened by the increasingly large crowd, called for backup and seven fellow soldiers came to his side. The small group of British troops, now faced with nearly 400 mean all throwing rocks and snowballs at them, began to load their weapons. That’s when the colonists began to instigate the soldiers by yelling “Come on you rascals, you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare, God damn you, fire and be damned, we know you dare not” (BostonMassacre.net). Egged on and faced with being trampled by this horde, the British soldiers opened fire on the colonists. At the end of this “massacre”, three colonists were left dead lying in the street with two others that later succumbed to their injuries. Word of this incident spread like wildfire and it became a piece of propaganda used by the revolutionaries. It was a symbol of British insolence and showed the people the effect of the presence of these British soldiers within the
An increase of british troops within the colonies of this magnitude would have upset even the people of a colony that was happy with their government thus far. The difference was that by this point the british and the americans were already at eachothers throats. these british soldiers saw themselves as above the law and definitely did not help the situation by constantly antagonizing the colonists. On March 5th, 1770, a young man named Edward Garrick insulted a British soldier who responded by hitting him in the head with the butt of his rifle. Garrick then went and round up a large group of colonists and returned to the soldier that had just struck him. The soldier, who was threatened by the increasingly large crowd, called for backup and seven fellow soldiers came to his side. The small group of British troops, now faced with nearly 400 mean all throwing rocks and snowballs at them, began to load their weapons. That’s when the colonists began to instigate the soldiers by yelling “Come on you rascals, you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare, God damn you, fire and be damned, we know you dare not” (BostonMassacre.net). Egged on and faced with being trampled by this horde, the British soldiers opened fire on the colonists. At the end of this “massacre”, three colonists were left dead lying in the street with two others that later succumbed to their injuries. Word of this incident spread like wildfire and it became a piece of propaganda used by the revolutionaries. It was a symbol of British insolence and showed the people the effect of the presence of these British soldiers within the