Good afternoon, we are now gathered at the town hall to discuss our reasoning to declare for our independence and to express why breaking away from Britain in a rebellion is necessary. Even after the war, the colonies are split between two groups between patriot who favor the British rebellion and the loyalist who remain loyal to Britain. However, it should be very clear that we, the patriot, should be justified in rebelling against Britain for whatever we deem unfair. Our reason for this rebellion are from all the faults made by our Britain King,George the third. This includes all the acts of taxation, wrongful navigation act, and salutary neglect. All of these acts are examples that impact our moral value that logically s encourage us to …show more content…
start rebelling. After the French and Indian War, the casualties of the war were massive, therefore large amount of money would be needed to fix the damage.
Instead, taxes were placed on all the colonies in order to pay off, all of the war debts. All of the colonies are required to pay taxes were unfair for us to pay the war debts without any kind of reasons especially without having our consent from any of our representatives. This is violating our moral as human, we should not be use for someone else benefit. The taxes impacted the patriots and increased tension between the colonists and the British. Even though, taxes already cause a negative impact toward the relation, King George III proceeds to issue additional taxes such as the Stamp Act. We were already feeling unpleasant with the taxes. Additional taxes are insulting and unfair for our situation. In the end, taxes is an unjustified act that only encourage us to rebellion in the first places for a multiple unfavor change that we gave consent upon on. (Body …show more content…
1) During the time of peace after the French and Indian War, we still didn't have we were developing our economy and able to manufacture goods on our own quite well. Until, when the British intervened and ends up ruining it. The British, first place mercantilism into motion and then later into the Navigation Act. The purpose of the act was to benefit Britain wealth and to increase their trading materials. Main courses that result this can be from Dutch during that time were dominating the trading may threaten the trade of English shipping or could be a simple feeling of greed (O.I). Unfortunate, this act has continue to impact the colonies once again negatively on our relationship with Britain. Including the fact that this act is technically violating our rights that every human should have. Even loyalist shouldn't accept all unrighteous act that does not respect our rights. The more and more acts that seem unfair provide justification for our reason to rebel. (Body 2) For the statement of taxes, the loyalists may say that the taxes are used to support the British Army for our protection from Native American and from other countries.
This may be true, but at the same time most of the taxes were served for war debt instead for protection, deceiving us. The main point of taxes toward the colonist was to pay for war debts, that is the reason for the countless taxes such as the Stamp Act and Tea Act simply for the war. At the same time, the act was all the British King decision, not our permission to pass it. This debunks loyalist claim for taxes as false and isn't Britain and King George III real intent to protect the colonies from an invader.
(Counterclaim) Lastly, the patriots is justified reason for rebelling against Britain for the current British relationship personnel involve violence and riot. This show that our relationship our relationship with Britain is already getting worse by time. We peaceful protest on March 5, 1770 to cooperate to resolve the tension in taxes, but instead we were respond with gunshots. Hence, the reason why some patriots began to cause trouble, such as the Boston Tea Party. The justified reason is just to separate the colonies from Britain because eventually we mostly likely go to war with a different reason of hate and take each other down. Logically between patriots and loyalist, we all don't want war or want to live in a society under violence and riots. In order to bypass the unfair treatment and further violence, separating the colonies allow us to make our rules that fit our own state. The current circumstance of violence is not the future, that the colonists seek, rather a solution for our unrighteous rule under the British.(Body 3) To sum it up, as an Patriots, it should be concluded that our rebellion against Britain our home country for independence was justified and necessary since the very beginning from when corrupt acts were passed impacting the colonies relationship . From, the unfair taxes, the navigation acts and bad British personnel involving violence. All three situation bring upon a negative relation Britain and the colonies. British has defy countless moral of human life. Ultimately, Patriots are justified generally to fight for whatever they deem righteous, in this we are rightful in rebellion against Britain for freedom.
After the Seven Years Way England was broke for she had spent more money needed to win the war. Also winning the war gave the colonist a “we can do it spirit”. However because England now was facing debt she decided to tax the colonies. One the first acts passed was the sugar act passed in 1764. This Act was the raise revenue in American colonies. What it did was lowered the tax from six penses to three penses per gallon on foreign molasses. Molasses is a product made by refining sugarcane, grapes or sugar beets into sugar. This upset the colonist because before the sugar act they didn’t have to pay the tax so even if it was lowered that meant nothing for they now had to pay for it. A year later, in 1765, the Britain’s passed another act known as the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act put a tax on stamped paper, publications, playing cards, etc. Because it was on all paper products in a way it affected everyone; from the papers for the upper class such as lawyers, publications such as newspapers for the middle class, and playing cards for the lower class for entertainment. Next, the Townshend Act passed by Charles Townshend. This came in 1767, which imposed taxes on colonial tea, lead, paint, paper, and glass which just like the Stamp Act affected all of the classes in the colonist in the Americas. Though this act was removed three years later in 1770, it still left colonists with a warning that conditions may become worse. Around 1773, parliament passed the Intolerable Acts one of those acts which affected taxation was the Bost...
...no loyalty to the Crown now, in future conflicts, the colonists may turn against us and become our enemy. Radical action must be taken in order to regulate their behavior. They must recognize the royal authority.
The British colonies in America from the time they were established up until around 1763 had a policy of Salutary Neglect. Salutary Neglect meant that the British would not interfere with the colonies national or even international affairs. This benefitted the colonies, they got to experience some forms of democracy, and they also were able to experience independence in a way though they took it for granted. The British after the Seven Years War, which was fought on American soil, for the Americans protection, decided that the colonies should be required to pay for it in taxes. Britain was in debt, and their economy was in a recession, so the well off colonies tax money would have helped them considerably. The tax would only be the beginning to a long line of British policies further upsetting the colonial people.
It was said, and is very true, that the British gave a lot to the colonists and we see such helpings as in the French and Indian war. The British gave up a lot of troops and money and numerous others in fighting that war, that the least that the colonist could do is to pay the taxes. Well they do have a good right to say that since they were the contributing factor in the colonists being safe from the French and Indians. The people, in the end should go about daily lives and pay the normal taxes, but you do have to draw the line somewhere. (DCT 1)
On the brink of revolution, the colonies were divided amongst themselves. Two factions with different ideologies “The Patriots” & and the “The Loyalist”, to know these factions we must first know another. Because both parties played a pivotal role in the “American Revolution”.
Patrick Henry once said, “give me liberty or give me death!” During the revolutionary war. The American revolution had begun in Lexington on April 9, 1775. This was where the first battle of the American revolution occurred. Through all the battles and acts the British had placed on the colonists, they had suffered greatly and decided to break away from Britain. But, were the colonists valid in disuniting from Britain and conducting war? The American colonists were justified in waging war and splitting from Britain because the British were unjust to the colonists , they imposed unnecessary acts against the colonists and the British ignored all requests for change.
The American Revolution was caused by a series of attempts from the British to tax American colonists. After a war against France, Britain ruled an enormous overseas empire. Britain however faced war debt and was in need of money to administer the overseas empire. The crown decided that since the colonists were the primary beneficiaries of this empire, it was time to have them contribute to the empire’s revenue by paying taxes.
After the French and Indian War ended in 1763, Great Britain had nearly gone bankrupt paying for the war. The British thought it was only logical to start new taxes against the colonists. After all, to the British, they had fought the war in the name of the colonies and in what they believed was in their best interest. Many different types of taxes came and went to help pay for the debt. Over time, the
July 4th of 1776 is arguably the most significant day in American history. On this day, the thirteen British colonies won their independence from Great Britain, their mother country at the time. The war that allowed the colonies to gain their independence was, of course, the American Revolution. One reason the colonists’ declaration of independence was understandable was because after an extended period of salutary neglect, the British started imposing laws on the colonies. Another reason was that the British violated colonists’ rights by implementing the Proclamation of 1763. A third and final reason the colonies were correct in breaking away from Great Britain was that although the colonists were not represented in British Parliament, Great Britain still taxed them. The thirteen British colonies were absolutely justified in seceding from Great Britain because the British started to enforce laws after a long period of salutary neglect, they violated the colonists’ rights by passing the Proclamation of 1763, and the colonies were required to pay taxes even though they were not represented in Parliament.
After the French and Indian War, the British government decided to make the American colonies pay a large share of the war debt with new taxes that they issued. The English ...
The Colonists are tired of the mistreatment and they are effectively severing all “Allegiance to the British Crown, and. . . political connection” (para. 23). The audience of The Declaration of Independence, the world, is specifically addressed twice. His opening paragraph introduces the context for the Declaration.
...arliament, caused the colonies to become more and more independent throughout the eighteenth century. Yet the colonists wanted to exhaust every remedy to their grievances before resorting to war. Declaring independence was never going to be a swift process, as each colony progressed at a different rate. Nonetheless, forming a colonial army at the same time as attempting to negotiate peaceful conciliation with the British was not at first a popular decision, yet to many the benefits outweighed the possible losses. In the end, the rejection of the Olive branch represented a watershed in the evolution of a national identity that was completely independent of a British identity, for its dismissal stiffened the patriots’ resolve toward independence and paved the way for the penning of a much more famous letter to the king, the Declaration of Independence.
The British Order in Council said ¨The British revenue only paid for a fourth of the cost and was inconsiderable ¨ (DOC 6). Due to not being able to afford to protect the colonies Great Britain developed mercantilist policies in order to gain some money. Mercantilism benefited the mother country but the colonies were only allowed to trade with Great Britain making them overspend for items in order to gain some revenue. The colonial government now had less power because of this policy of mercantilism. Soldiers at the time thought that they were not being treated fairly, one soldiers diary said ¨And though we be Englishmen born, we are [denied] Englishman's liberty (DOC 4). The British treated colonist with less respect than they would have if they were from Great Britain which caused a divide worsening the relationship between Great Britain and the American colonist. Taxes were also enforced in the colonies to pay for the British troops. The colonist thought this new taxation seemed unfair, they saw it as death to their liberties (DOC 7). Great Britain introduced tax such as the stamp act (1765), the sugar act (1764), and the Townshend acts (1767). American colonist thought that they should have taxation with representation so they formed groups such as the sons and daughters of liberty and boycotted taxed
The war had been enormously expensive, and the British government’s attempts to impose taxes on colonists to help cover these expenses resulted in chaos. English leaders, were not satisfied with the financial and military help they had received from the colonists during the war. In a desperate attempt to gain control over the colonies as well as the additional revenue to pay off the war debt, Britain began to force taxes on the colonies. Which resulted in The Stamp Act, passed by parliament and signed by the king in March 1765. The Stamp Act created an excise tax on legal documents, custom papers, newspapers, almanacs, college diplomas, playing cards, and even dice. Obviously the colonist resented the Stamp Act and the assumption that parliament could tax them whenever and however they could without their direct representation in parliament. Most colonials believed that taxation without their consent was a violation of their constitutional rights as Englishmen. Which is where the slogan “No Taxation without Representation” comes
The British citizens were being heavily taxed and the French and Indian War had taxed the British heavily. They thought that it was only right that the colonists whom they had spent so much money protecting, and who were taxed lightly in comparison with the other British citizens, to help pay. Note please that prior to this the British had allowed the colonists to tax themselves and did not impose revenue raising...