Goals Of The Colonists During The American Revolution

The taxation of the colonists was very important to what would eventually be the American Revolution. The people of the colonies were finally united, though they have not called for an army to be made or haven’t talked about independence, they are starting to come together, and make their differences blur.

Many colonists were angered because of high taxes England chose to enforce on them. These taxes were a result of the British participation and victory in the French and Indian war. However, what made the colonists even more angry was the fact that they were being taxed without representation in England’s Parliament. The colonists thought that, in order to be taxed by the British, they should have representation in it. They saw it as unfair to be taxed by a government they had no say in. As Patrick Henry said in his speech made to the Virginia House of Burgesses, “We can under law be taxed only by our own representatives...The Stamp Act is against the law. We must not obey it…” (Doc. 1). Since many colonists thought this taxation broke the law, some of them chose to protest by going to the House of Burgesses, boycotting imports, or simply not paying it in response. This response is justified; if

And in order to collect the taxes, the Bratians raisen the Sugar Act and Stamp Act to put more restrictions on colonial trade and forced colonists to buy special stamped paper. That makes conlonist getting angry and to against the "Taxation without representation", the only thing they want to do is to elect their own colonial legislatures. Also the Proclamation of 1763, bans them from crossing and going to the settlement of the west. So the colonial rebellion is reasonable, they just deserved to have much more control over their own government. For the resistance, colonies coordinate to boycott the British goods. And the matter was worsened when the British government enforced the Townshend Acts through force, it imposed taxes on imported goods from Britain, which really hurt many colonial merchants. And colonies respond that with more boycott. Although the Tea Party removed taxes on tea sold by British, but American tea still taxed. So on the December 16th, 1776 the Boston Tea Party dump 90,000 pounds of tea into the ocean to resist. But after that, British soldiers flooded into Boston, and colonists had to feed and lodge them. The Continental Congress was formed to reason the King George, in the attempt to keep the peace between Britaish and colonies, but he refused the negotiation, and sent troops to

The colonists strongly desired independence and separation from Britain once taxation without representation was imposed on them. The colonies struggled to earn their representation in the Parliament of their mother country. They were turned down repeatedly and this caused huge issues for the colonists; it was the complete reason for the Revolutionary War. Therefore, the demand for no taxation without representation was the primary force to motivate America against Britain and it was also a symbol for democracy.

The American Revolution was the uprising of the existing thirteen American colonies to gain independence from Britain in the mid 1700’s. The American colonists began questioning Britain’s authority as early as the French and Indian War. During the French Indian War, the colonies wanted to defend themselves against the French in North America. They asked King George for permission to raise armies in order defend themselves. Although their reason to raise an army was sincere, George II was suspicious of the intentions of the colonial government and disapproved their petition. After the French Indian War, Britain decided to raise money by taxing the American Colonists for reparations. Taxes such as the Stamp and Tea Acts created controversy

Imagine how hard it would be to live in the 1760s. Now imagine living in the 1760s and having a bunch of taxes put on all the things that you use most. This is what the American colonists had to live through. In the 1760s, the British parliament placed taxes and laws on the American colonists. The colonists got very upset with Great Britain and started to protest. Eventually these protests led to the revolutionary war. Two british laws that the colonists thought were unfair were the high taxes on their goods without anyone to represent the colonists and the law that let the british soldiers quarter in the colonist homes. The colonists responded by doing boycotting British Goods and protesting.

The colonists were upset about Parliament and Britain; which lead them to create the American Revolution.   The American Revolution was not justified and unreasonable.   The colonists were overreacting about Parliament's laws and Britain.

In the 1760s, there was a strong movement of colonists who enjoyed British protection, but were disfranchised in Parliament. The colonists still felt loyal to the King and sought to amend their problems through diplomacy. In 1764, a Resolution passed by the Virginian House of Burgesses attempted to appease the King of England, by respectfully asking for direct representation in Parliament (doc. 1). The King and much of Parliament were dumbfounded because they saw the colonists as merely an overseas territory of Britain and the opinions of the colonists were already represented in Parliament indirectly. The refusal of the British to allow direct representation led to the desire of the colonists for independence which came in the form of the American Revolution. The resolution of the Virginia House of Burgesses acted as a symbol for the ongoing struggle, between the colonists and the British government over representation in the government. Failures of Parliament and King George III to recognize the efforts of the colonists led them to form various committees of correspondence, like the Continental Congresses, to nationally raise the question of direct representation. The demands for direct representation in Parliament became a

Before the U.S. Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence they were upset with England for not giving them enough power. After the French Indian War, taxation was a major issue with the stamp act taxing paper, as well as the tea act, taxing tea. Colonists were opposed to these taxes and rebelled with the Boston Tea Party. Many of these rebellions led to bloodshed as with the case of the Boston Massacre.The colonists were not only upset about taxing and violence, but were also upset for not having enough power in the colonial government. Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence to King George III in order to give themselves self government. However the king rejected the declaration, so the colonist needed to fight and prove

The year 1754 marked the end of the great French and Indian War. This battle was was fought by the British/colonists vs. French and Indians for domination over North American soil. While the British/colonists did win, it only served to create a larger hatred of the British from the colonists. After the colonists sacrificed many lives and valuable time, the British began to tax the Americans over daily goods such as tea, paper, stamps, etc. This infuriated the colonists as they had no one to represent them in British parliament to defend them from these taxes, creating the phrase “No taxation without representation.” The British choose to ignore most of the colonists’ complaints, leading to the creation of the First Continental Congress. The

In the 1700s, the Colonists were enraged how the British Parliament were treating them. The British Parliament had been constantly ignoring their rights and forcing taxes upon the colonies. This set an outroar in the colonies, especially in Massachusetts. Parliament had created new laws that limited the Massachusetts-bay in shipping and landing goods and also an act that for a better regulation government in this providence. All of the colonists deemed this as “Impolitic, unjust, and cruel, as well as unconstitutional, and most dangerous and destructive of American rights”(Declaration and Resolves, para. 3) This forced them to send Parliament a document called, Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress. This document was

The first agent of the revolution started in 1763 with the ending of the French and Indian War in which Great Britain conquered all of France’s holdings in North America. Consequently, this resulted in large amounts of debt for the British. The British decided that raising taxes on the colonies would allow them to acquire the needed funds. Document one reads “ One of the first taxes imposed by the British parliament was commonly known as the Stamp Act. It required American colonists to pay fees for all kinds of printed documents.” The Colonists however, disagreed with this act. John Adams, a young lawyer in Massachusetts wrote a resolution protesting the new act. An excerpt from it found in document one reads: “This tax is unconstitutional. We have always understood it to be a grand and fundamental principal…that no…man should be subject to any tax which he has not given his own consent.” “If this new tax were allowed to pass without resistance, the colonists reasoned, the door would be open for far more troublesome taxation in the future.” 2

In the early 1700s, the American colonists were content with the rule of Great Britain and the British King. The practice of salutary neglect kept the relationship between the colonists and Great Britain in balance. Most people were satisfied with this arrangement. However, certain events caused these feelings to change. During the 1750s and 1760s, Great Britain and the colonists joined forces against the French during the French and Indian War. Although the British won, the war left them with huge debts and new lands to protect in North America. To solve the problems, the British government passed a number of laws. Some of these laws ordered the colonists to pay new taxes. These new taxes angered colonists because they had no representatives

The American Revolution was a movement that brought forward drastic changes within American society, bringing into light new and controversial ideas of equality and freedom to the colonies. The tension between Britain and the colonies brewed as the English Congress, Parliament, began to pass laws and taxes on colonies’ goods, sparking uproars and protests reminiscing about the past rule over the colonies- salutary neglect and a desire to return to the unscrutinized type of British rule. The French and Indian War sent Britain spiraling into debt and in order to remedy the loss, Parliament began to tax colonists to pay back what was lost from the war. In essence, the colonies

for the Boston Tea Party, was the Boston Massacre which began as a small quarrel