America's War Of Independence Research Paper
America's War of Independence was a political and military struggle among the thirteen American colonies and England. Since the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in the French and Indian War, the result was British control over much of North America. This was had cost England a great deal of money and Parliament decided it was time for the colonies to pay a share for their own defense. The movement to resist the new imperial policies, a movement for which many people would die for, was thus at the same time democratic and conservative. It was a movement to conserve liberties Americans believe they already possessed. While it would be hard to point to any one event that singularly led to the revolution, there is no doubt that
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The clamor about "representation" made little sense to the English. According to them, they represented the interests of the whole nation, not particular individuals. This English theory shows when in 1764 the British for the first time imposed a series of taxes designed specifically to raise revenue from the colonies. This tax became known as the Sugar Act. One of its major components was the raising of the tariff on sugar. The British, led by Prime Minister George Greenville, felt that the colonists should share some of the continued burdens of sustaining British troops in the colonies. Colonial protests and riots forced the British to scale back the …show more content…
The daily contact between British soldiers and colonists served to worsen relations. An armed clash between the British and the colonists was almost inevitable from the moment British troops were introduced in Boston. On March 5, 1770, a crowd of 60 towns people surrounded British sentries guarding the customs house. They began pelting snowballs and rocks at them and the soldiers shot eleven people, five were killed. In 1773, with the issue of the Tea Act, the East India Company was granted a virtual monopoly on the importation of tea. In protest, a group of Boston citizens disguised as Indians boarded a ship and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. This is known as the Boston Tea Party. Parliament responded with the Intolerable Acts. Accused colonists would be tried in England, American homes were forced to host British troops, and the Boston Harbor was
The clamor about "representation" made little sense to the English. According to them, they represented the interests of the whole nation, not particular individuals. This English theory shows when in 1764 the British for the first time imposed a series of taxes designed specifically to raise revenue from the colonies. This tax became known as the Sugar Act. One of its major components was the raising of the tariff on sugar. The British, led by Prime Minister George Greenville, felt that the colonists should share some of the continued burdens of sustaining British troops in the colonies. Colonial protests and riots forced the British to scale back the …show more content…
The daily contact between British soldiers and colonists served to worsen relations. An armed clash between the British and the colonists was almost inevitable from the moment British troops were introduced in Boston. On March 5, 1770, a crowd of 60 towns people surrounded British sentries guarding the customs house. They began pelting snowballs and rocks at them and the soldiers shot eleven people, five were killed. In 1773, with the issue of the Tea Act, the East India Company was granted a virtual monopoly on the importation of tea. In protest, a group of Boston citizens disguised as Indians boarded a ship and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. This is known as the Boston Tea Party. Parliament responded with the Intolerable Acts. Accused colonists would be tried in England, American homes were forced to host British troops, and the Boston Harbor was