To What Extent Were The Colonists Responsible For The American Revolution

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In 1754, colonists were content with the British and had good relations, but who knew that almost a decade or so later, that would begin to change. The American Revolution was caused due to many different reasons ranging from the British’s ignorance of Colonial rights, to the Colonists disobeying British rules. Many of these problems between the Colonists and the British eventually led to the big revolution as we know it, the American Revolution. The British were mostly responsible for the American Revolution. The British were mostly responsible for the American Revolution because the British were doing unjust things to the colonists, such as taxing the colonists without their consent. The Stamp Act was a tax that was passed in 1765. The Stamp …show more content…

In 1763, Sir William Johnson agreed with the natives to draw a line on the Appalachian Mountain Range on which the colonists could not go past. The colonists' response to this was they completely ignored the Proclamation and went past it. Keep in mind that the British established the Proclamation to protect the colonies, but the colonists still ignored them. This shows the Colonists' ignorance of the British’s laws, even if the laws were trying to protect them in the first place. Even if the colonists crossed the border, who’s there to stop them? There were no British soldiers preventing the colonists from crossing the Appalachian Mountain Range. So why would the colonists care? They did not want the Proclamation in the first place and instead wanted to be free, after all that’s why they came to the colonies. The colonists did not come to the colonies just to have a Proclamation established on them without their consent, it’s quite the opposite actually. In 1773, some colonists dressed up as native Americans dumped millions of dollars worth of tea into the Boston harbor, this event is known as the Boston Tea Party. A participant's perspective on the party was that “We then were ordered by our commander to open the hatches and throw them overboard” (Hakim 52). The intention behind this was because of the unjust taxing on them (Hakim 54). The British’s response to this was that they were shocked that the colonists would destroy this amount of property that was theirs. As a result of that, the British decided to close down Boston Harbor to punish the colonies (History.com). That action, however, not only caused people in Boston to have trouble, it caused everyone around the colonies to have trouble and think about separating from Britain (Hakim 54-55). In contrast, the Boston Tea Party was an act of rebellion against the British’s tea act that they established

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