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Revolutionary War Research Paper

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Revolutions and wars are great events that marked the history of any country, and America was not the exception. American colonists enjoyed some independence since they could set their own rules. However, years later, the King George III set a series of rules and taxes that they had to comply. Although American colonists had a strong desire to be part of Britain, after some years, there were many events and issues between 1765 and 1779 which caused the seek for their independence from the mother country. First, after the Seven Year War, Britain had many debts to pay because the war was costly. British people thought that the only beneficiaries after the war were Americans, so they must pay all the expenses. The Englishmen imposed taxes trough …show more content…

Nonimportation was the American resistance, and Boston was the focal point of this boycott. For example, women preferred to spin and weave their own clothes instead of buying the luxury clothes from Britain. In 1770, “ an armed confrontation between Bostonians and English royal troops left five Bostonians dead, this event was called the Boston Massacre by Crispus Attucks”( Forner,189). After two years, Americans realized that without importations, their economy was not working. Britons and colonist got an agreement where Americans had to pay the just the tea tax and Englishmen remove the royal troops from Boston. In 1773, A group of colonists did not agree with the idea about the tea taxation so, they threw more than 300 chests of tea into the water as their resistance. “The East India company lost around $4 million dollars, because in that moment the tea was a drink consumable by all social classes in England and the colonies” (Forner,192). This event is known as the Boston Tea Party. By 1774, British closed the port of Boston, altered the Massachusetts Charter, and led the military commander have soldiers in private homes. All these punishments Americans called the Intolerable

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