Who Was To Blame For The Revolutionary War Essay

Throughout the wars in history they never end on an equal consensus on who “won” or who was to blame. One of the most questioned wars was the Revolutionary War between the British and the colonist. It is a constant debate on who is to blame for the two groups ending up in an armed conflict. The British has shown more evidence to be blamed for this conflict with taxation without representation/unfair taxing by the Townshend Act and Stamp act, and manipulating the colonist within the Tea Act.
A contributing factor to the revolutionary war was all the acts and taxes passed by the British parliament that were unfair to the colonist. The biggest act that stood out to be unfair was the Townshend Act. The revenue from the tax from imported goods became
In the act the British said that the colonist could only buy from the East India Company hoping that this would boost their economy, not mentioning that the British controlled the company. In this situation the colonist should be able to trade freely. The colonist already sold their goods to the british at a low price which then British manufactured the raw goods and resold them at extravagant prices back to the colonists. The colonists were manipulated at this time by the monopoly given to the East India Company.This then led to the Boston Tea Party, where the colonist concealed themselves and dumped chest full of tea over bored into the Boston Harbor. Looking through the eyes of the British they were trying to get the company back on its feet and how the colonies acted at the Boston tea party was over the top and set the company back even more. Instead of cutting off trade from the colonist they could have given them a percentage of where they could trade. For example, 70 percent of trade could go to the East India company and the rest was their