To What Extent Was The American Revolution Inevitable?

The Revolution era was both exciting and disturbing; some saw it as a great victory and progress for the country while others felt disturbed and uneasy with the changes it brought. Despite the disturbing parts of the war, it ended a myriad of years of British rule for the colonies and created what is now the United States of America. There remain to be a good amount of debates on whether or not the Revolution was inevitable, such as John Adams’ letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1818, which I will talk about along with some background on the war. Prior to the Revolution, Britain was at war with the French in the Seven Years War. The war ended in British victory and France’s loss of all their territories in North America, which left the American colonies excited since they were under control of the British. Following this war, the British Parliament decided they
Such taxes were; the Stamp Act in 1765 which required certain official documents to have a special stamp on it that cost a certain amount of money; The Tea Act of 1773 which put a tax on tea. In response to the colonial protests, British attacked the colonists and killed five men, otherwise known as the Boston Massacre. After the colonists protested by dumping 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts re-enforcing authority in Massachusetts. All these events caused a group of delegates, including George Washington, John and Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, and John Jay, to get together and discuss the issues at hand; the meeting was called the First Continental Congress. They denounced “taxation without representation” and wanted to issue a declaration of rights to the citizens. Before their next meeting, the first shots of the