Were The Colonists Justified To Declare Independence From Britain?

Say you were a colonist and the majority of colonist wanted to to Declare independence from Britain, you would be smart and choose to rally against them to be on Britain's side. You would know that they were more powerful than the colonies. You would realize that the taxes were reasonable and that the colonist were throwing a temper tantrum over nothing. Or could you be one of the over dramatic unsmart colonist, that wanted Independence.The point is that the colonist weren’t justified to declare independence from Britain because Great Britain gave them many happy years and they would still be happy if the colonist just obey. If they would’ve stayed with Britain there would be no war, and the colonist wouldn’t have a chance of dying, also they would have the ties with Britain, such as trade. …show more content…
They didn’t have a reason to fight over the thirteen years of being unhappy because they had 156 years of being happy.The reason that they suddenly became unhappy is the colonist weren’t obeying the reasonable laws and taxes.What made them think that they would be any happier when they broke away? The colonist would face wars with indians and have to fight them off themselves.They would experience poverty without britain’s help. Anyways 30% of the colonist didn’t want independence they had the right mindset. With Britain they would have guns to fight with and help from the army,also they wouldn’t face poverty the British would make sure they were well fed, I mean come on they are the face of New