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To What Extent Were The American Colonists Justified In The Revolutionary War

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Taxes on tea, taxes on legal documents/paper, taxes on gas, lead, paint. All these laws and more are what eventually got the American Colonists to go against Great Britain and eventually breaking away. Until 1776, the American thirteen colonies were under British rule. During the years that the colonies were under British rule, the colonists were treated extremely poorly. The British created many unjust laws against the colonists. Some of the many unjust laws were the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Act of 1767, the Tea Act of 1773, and the Intolerable Acts of 1774. All of these laws eventually lead to the Boston Massacre, then The Boston Tea party, and the Battle of Lexington. All together all these events brought up to the Revolutionary War. Justify; "to show or prove to be right or reasonable". The American Colonists were justified in waging war and breaking away from Great Britain. …show more content…

The American Colonists were justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain because the Britain had unfair laws against the colonists. Throughout the time the Colonists were under British rule, the Colonists were treated horribly and in a cruel manner. One of the laws the British created that was unfair to the Colonists was the Tea Act. The Tea Act was created to force Colonists to pay taxes when they bought tea. A piece of evidence that proves that Britain had unfair laws against the colonists is in document 2. In document 2, John Dickinson talks about how the British parliament had no intentions what so ever of forcing the colonists to work until the

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