Was the American Revolution Inevitable?

Topics: American Revolution, Samuel Adams, Boston Tea Party Pages: 3 (1068 words) Published: October 20, 2012
Even with both the English and the Americans willing to compromise and make deals, it would have been very hard to prevent the War for independence. The American enlightenment, however, could have been stopped. A large majority of Americans wanted independence from England mainly because of the way they were being ruled. Of the Americans that wanted to break away were from many backgrounds, they came from all over the social ladder and from all over the world. If they didn’t all come together to be equal around each other then the War for Independence still would have happened, but the success and growth during and after the war would have never happened. It was never a sure thing whether or not the people would come together to move the American Revolution forward.

The American War for Independence was unstoppable, the colonists who wanted to break away from England have gradually increased in numbers over the years, starting from the French and Indian War. After the war was over and the British had won, they had over £145 million in debt from that war. George Grenville, the chief minister of England at the time, decided to put more taxes on the colonists back in America to help lessen the bind of the debt while putting on the colonists to pay off. Grenville kept adding more acts to make more money off of the colonists, first came the Sugar Act of 1764, which put a tax on French imported molasses and put other products on a list that says that these commodities can only be sent to England. This act lessened the income of merchants while still charging for imported goods. Next in 1751, came the Currency Act, which forbade New England colonies to issue paper money as legal tender. This was a tough act for the colonists because in the hard economy the country was already in, it further constricted trade in this region. At this point, some colonists began to see Parliament as a violator of their colonial rights. Some colonial leaders were even unsure where...
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