Causes Of The American Revolution

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Causes of the Revolutionary War



During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events

resulted in colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions

of rights of the colonists will slowly be changed as the

constriction of the parliament becomes more and more intolerable.
During the seven years war England was not only alarmed by the

colonists insistence on trading with the enemy, but also with

Boston merchants hiring James Otis in order to protest the

legality of the writs of assistance used to hunt out smuggled

goods. “Let the parliament lay what burthens they please on us,

we must, it is our duty to submit and patiently bear them, till

they will be pleased to relieve us”. This is a very strong

dictum, that in 1764, the colonists were of a submissive nature,

and were weakly pleading for self-autonomy. This small fire of

anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly

rescinded.

On October of 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary

Taxation committees’s passed some laws that attempted to

strengthen the grip of the English crown. That his Majesty’s

subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the crown

of Great Britain. This statement can be used as a summation of

the entire document that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated.

The statement depicts the colonists has having to be submissive

and servile in the view of Great Britain, this policy angered the

colonists very much, and was another component of the transition

of the colonists rights and liberties. When the Declatory Act

was passed in March of 1766, many colonies were attempting to

claim that they were seceding from England. Where as several of

the house of representatives in his majesty’s colonies and

plantations in America, have of late, against law, or to the

general assemblies of the same, th...