King George III And The British Dbq

During the French and Indian war there was peace between the british and the colonies. But after the war, Britain fell into a large debt due to war cost. They felt the only way to make up for that debt was to tax the colonist without their consent. And this was just the beginning of the road to Revolution. King George continued to show to who he really was and that he was not afraid to get what he wanted. King George III and the british parliament would go to any extent to get what they needed no matter how colonist felt about it. King George III and the british parliament were responsible for most of the development of the American Revolution because they passed many harsh and unfair acts, they deprived the colonist of their free and natural

King George III and the british parliament were responsible for most of the development of the American Revolution because they passed many harsh and unfair acts. When the British won the French and Indian war, they took over many aspects of the colonist lives. Many acts were passed including the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, the Townshend Act, the Intolerable Act, and the Quartering Act. All of these acts were put in place by the government to benefit the government. When King George III passed the stamp act, a stamp was put on newspapers and legal and commercial documents, taxing them to raise revenue for the government. The colonist opposed to this and demanded the act to be repealed. The government repealed the act, only to place another one. The Declaratory Act. This act stated that the British government had complete and utter control of the colonist and could do whatever, whenever they wanted to. Another unfair act that King George III passed was Townshend Act. As shown in From a farmer in Pennsylvania, written by John Dickinson; “There is another late act of parliament, which appears to me to be unconstitutional, and as destructive to the liberty of these colonies, as that

When you are born you are given natural rights. John Locke once said that we have the right to life, liberty, and property. Well, King George III and the british parliament did everything in their power to take these freedoms from the colonist. The colonist put up with this at first, but as they starting listening to patriot authors and using their own reason, they realized they were being cheated of their natural rights and freedoms. Two of these patriot authors, being Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson, wrote in Continental Congress; “In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it- for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms” (Document 2). The colonist are saying that it has gone too far and they are fed up to the point of preparing for war. They will not stop fighting until peace is retained and until they are given fair and equal rights. As shown in The Bostonians paying the excise-man, or tarring and feathering, “Tarring and feathering was a ritual of humiliation and public warning that stopped just short of serious injury” (Document 12). This colonist turned against an excise man