Pros And Cons Of The Revolutionary War

After the French and Indian war, Britain was left with a huge debt to pay. The colonies were happy that they had won the war, so they never thought of what had to come after the war that they had caused in the first place. Great Britain thought that by taxing the colonies, it would be the only way to help pay off their debt. The taxes and laws that Britain had imposed on the colonies were the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, The Proclamation Act of 1763, the Quartering Act, Townshend Acts and the Coercive Intolerable Acts. Some of these acts had been for the solely purpose to help pay off the debt that Britain had, after the French and Indian War. But some of these laws were imposed on the Americans because of the way that they were reacting.

Like Whately states, the war was fought for the safety of the Americans, and for their own benefit. “We are not yet recovered from a War undertaken solely for their(the American’s) Protection… a War undertaken for their defense only… they should contribute to the Preservation of the Advantages they have received…,”(Whately). They were many others that agreed with Whately’s reason to why Britain had the right to tax the colonies. Since the New Englanders were the reason for initiating the French and Indian War, then they should help pay for the debt that Britain was left in. When the Americans violated the Proclamation Act of 1763, they initiated a war that they would not be able to fight themselves. These colonist got greedy and decided to trespass through the Ohio Valley and take over land that was already inhabited by the Native Americans. The colonist not being able fight for themselves they had Britain send its troops to help stop the war. The colonists were the ones that started the French and Indian War. Because of this, Parliament has the right to tax them. Not to mention that they only had to pay 10% of the taxes British citizens had to. They paid significantly less, yet they argue that parliament has no right to tax them. Also they really only had some to little sort of

There were plenty of occasion where these colonist were to blame for the way Britain was making a combat towards them. “On March 5, 1770, a crowd of Boston boys and men surrounded a number of British soldiers and began taunting them cursing them while pelting them with snowballs. Order quickly broke down and the frightened soldiers fired into the crowd. When the shooting ended, several people were dead and more were wounded”, (Document 2). The engraving created by Paul Revere was created to arouse anti British feelings. The engraving he made told a different story than what had actually happened during the Boston Massacre. Paul Revere made it seem like the British soldiers were to blame for the massacre when in reality the colonist were to blame also. They were the ones that attacked the soldiers in the first place. “The king i openly cursed, and his authority is set at defiance… everything is rie for rebellion. The New Englanders by their canting, whining, insulating tricks have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them,”(Cresswell). So in response to this Britain had the right to implant more taxes and laws on them because of the way they were reacting. “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms; Our repeated Petitions have been answered