Was The Revolutionary War Right Or Wrong Essay

It’s 1763, both England and America recovered from the French and Indian War. Britain, now deeply in debt, looks to the colonists to pay for English protection if Indians seek to terrorize said colonists. They believed that this was reasonable, but alas, the colonists found it far from reason. Some believed it to be “unconstitutional” or “unfair”, but Parliament ignored the protests. You could say that Parliament was wrong or the colonists were wrong, but both sides not acknowledging each other’s perspectives caused this disagreement thus far. One of Parliament’s first acts was called the Stamp Act. Around that time, Parliament only placed duties on goods being traded, and this was the first time the colonists were taxed directly by Parliament. For the colonists, this and many other acts were a boastful violation of rights. They also believed that Parliament was unfit and had no business taxing them. Some people thought like John Dickinson, who said that if they let Parliament do this, they were no better than slaves. Dickinson even claimed the Stamp Act itself was destructive to

Parliament believed these taxes to be for the colonists’ own welfare, and they even issued the Tea Act, selling cheaper tea for the colonists’ sake. Even though the tea was cheaper, colonists opposed this and did the Boston Tea Party where, disguised as Indians, they poured over 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This rebellious act could be tolerated by Parliament no longer, so they passed the Coercive Acts as punishment. In the Coercive Acts, they shutdown Boston Harbor, cancelled Massachusetts’ charter, and made Thomas Gage governor. The colonists called the Coercive Acts “The Intolerable Acts” since they heavily disliked the Acts, but it was by their own decision that they poured over 300 chests of tea without considering the possible consequences that come with doing such a