How Did The British Accountable For The Revolutionary War

The Revolutionary War between England and the thirteen colonies during 1775 through 1783, was in debt to the British for originally sparking the soon to be flame behind the colonists’ rebellion and hatred towards England and its reign over the colonies. England; the mother country of the thirteen colonies, took advantage of the colonists of America by ruling like no reigning country should be able to and as someone who was hungry for only power and wealth. King George III of England chose to take advantage of his sovereignty of the colonies by limiting what the colonies could or could not do to grow and expand without the help of the British. He restricted the colonists by making them have a hard time trying to develop and instead, helped

England put taxes on all paper with Stamp Act and on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea with the Townshend Acts (Hakim 53-54). These taxes enraged the colonists because they had only been put on the colonists and not the people of England. The colonists felt as though even though they did not live in England anymore, they thought they deserved to be treated the same as the English were; “No taxation without representation” (Hakim 53). Moreover, the colonists were angry that they did not have any consent when the decision was made to have them taxed. The colonists wanted to be represented in a way where they could have a say in all the decisions the English made affecting both the colonists and the citizens of England. Without their say put in, the colonists felt as though they were deprived of their rights as Englishmen especially when Parliament taxed them without their permission. The colonists ultimately began the Colonial Assembly and their own self-government to start making decisions on their own without the help of the English because the British were unreasonably taxing item without their consent and without taxing the people of England in the same way ( ). The British were the ones who caused the Revolutionary

Originally, the British had every right to tax or confine the colonists in any way they deemed necessary. As the mother country of the colonies, the English had total control over the colonists to do want they wanted with them even if it might not have benefited them. The colonists were the ones who wanted to revolt and the ones who had chosen to start fighting back, eventually forcing both sides to go to war. They boycotted the taxes by doing unreasonable things such as tar and feathering tax collectors (Hakim 61) and wasting tons of tea profits during the Boston Tea Party (History.com). If they had just chosen to be content with England and the way it ruled, the English would never have gotten angry with them and chosen to punish them in the first place. Therefore, the colonists were the ones who were greedy for extra power and started to cause problems every time they did unnecessary things to get the English’s to tell them they wanted more power and control over the amount of freedom they had. When they did not receive the representation they wanted, they chose to show their anger through violence and unreasonable acts of rebellion. For example, they created many pieces of propaganda with ideas that did nothing to show any truth, instead, these just angered the colonists more, but now for