Why Is The American Revolution Unjust

In history, the American Revolution is a big event as it marked the beginning of the strongest country in the world in modern times. The war occurred between the British and the colonists of Britain. Many of the things the British did to their American colonists were unjust despite the fact that they had just come out of the French and Indian War. The British taxation of the American colonists was very unjust and the colonists’ actions against the British could be justified as they were upset by the unjust tyranny of King George III.
Before the war began, the British Parliament took tighter control of trade within their 13 colonies due to the debt Britain was in. Britain also raised taxes in order to carry them out out of debt at the time.

The first act passed by the British in order to raise taxes on the colonists was the Sugar Act of 1764. The act put a tax on sugar, brown sugar, and molasses. This angered everyone, even females as they were unable to do their baking with the raised taxes of the goods. The sugar act was on of the first real attempts at taxing the colonists. The colonists built a protest against the act due the fact that it even affected merchants and traders as well. The Stamp Act was finally repealed in 1766 but, not before the Stamp Act was put into place.
The Stamp Act was one of the primary acts passed by the British that outraged the colonists the most as it taxed most everything that was a paper product such as newspapers, documents, magazines, and even playing cards. The colonists were very displeased with the act and thought it violated their rights as Englishmen as they were taxed with consent. The popular slogan “No taxation without representation” arose from the act itself. But, the colonists did not get their wish, “They did not have the right to be represented in Parliament because they lived too far away.” (Hossell 12) The idea that they weren’t represented in Parliament due to distance was outragoustot them. Colonists sent petitions and protested against the act passed by Britain. The colonists created a meeting in New York City called the Stamp Act Congress. The congress was a group or many groups of colonists who did not agree with any of the taxation and they petitioned against the British Parliament and the King of Britian. All of the protests against the act started a new, secret organization called “ The Sons of Liberty”. The protests involving “ The Sons of Liberty” and the masses of British soldiers and colonists usually became chaotic and violent. Many tax distributors found the organization to be rather intimidating and almost forced them to resign from collecting the taxes so that the taxes weren’t able to be effectively collected. Many colonial boycotts threatened the British as they exported goods to the colonies. The act was finally repealed in 1766 after a year of protesting the injustice.
The Quartering Act of 1765 was another source of tension in the American Revolution as it required the colonists to house, feed, and quarter the British troops as they stayed in the colonies.

“In 1765, Parliament passed an act that forced colonists to help support British soldiers who were in the colonies to keep peace. Because it included payment for the soldiers’ quarters, or rooms, it was called the Quartering Act.”(Hossell 6) Many colonists were outraged at the idea of British troops being in thier private quarters and they felt as though they did not do anything to deserve such a hefty amount of monitoring. The orders of King George III were nothing short of tyrannical as it was almost a totalitarian government over the build up to the war as King George forced troops into close quarters with his colonists across seas which sparked more acts and rebellions within the colonies.
The Townshend Acts were put into effect as a response to the disobedience of the colonists towards the Quartering Act of 1765. Charles Townshend prosposed his idea that the colonists were upset that the taxes that were thrust upon them were direct and it was a form of internal taxation. Townshend thought that the colonists would not object an external tax though, and that’s where Townshend was incorrect. The colonists believed that any tax that was used to raise revenue was deemed unconstitutional and they wouldn’t see that it would be

passed.