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What are the causes of the American Revolutionary War?
Two decades before the revolutionary war, around 1754, the French Indian war was fought. That war coming to an end left the all-powerful Britain in debt. Thus as Britain overrule the colonies finally came into requirement. Infuriating the colonies forcing acts on them for Britain’s needs. What bring up the conclusion to an American Revolutionary war? In time with tension between British and the colonies Great Britain loses power, acts by parliament anger, and colonies resistance to rule enhances toward the American revolutionary war.
Britain loses power over colonies. Britain’s reign is inferior as the colonies prolong on their own. England’s temporary use of during the French Indian war can’t stand against American generals as well as Great Britain having too much authority they could handle at the time. Distance is bluntly one obstacle to have to deal with and so is population. The colonies population grew constantly as the country continued to grow with supplies and resources eventually gaining full power.
Natural barriers, resources, and population growth sustained the colonies to be as if independent. “Given their density of settlement and growth of population and resources it was absolutely inevitable that the colonies would generate through nationalist pressure for ever growing and forced independent” The colonies having basic materials needed to make a country independent could prevail inescapably. Nationalist having strong faith in the colonies chance to benefit from sovereignty pressure and temptation growing constantly it had to happened.
Britain’s selective fighting in the French Indian war command couldn’t stand against any general Robert Miller in The Glorious cause explains how Great Britain would never be able to go against American colonies as a deep popular hostility will be sustained for long by force alone because opportunities for resistance especially in interior. This demonstration explains how if Britain ever thought of trying to fully overtake America that a strong hatred will be held against them long bringing up chance of hindrance or resistance. Britain does not utilize well the authority they have over France and the colonies. “The British defeat the French in North America in 1763. As a result British took control of lands that had been claimed by France. Britain having now responsibility for almost 2 million people in 13 colonies and over 60 thousand people in France.’(12 miller) Britain spreads their self to thin taking over 200,000 people. Britain spreading them so wide loses control of what they have gained and lost purpose as well of why they even took control of these countries.
Acts by parliament grew the colonies anger. Acts affected colonies economic growth through imports and exports. The continuous adding of new acts didn’t just affect the colonist but also British. Taxing tobacco killed Virginia harming British who gets it from colonies. Accumulating through violent paths was taken to deal with the Townshend, stamp, tea, and the quartering act, actions to become independent not wanting to tolerate these acts.
The Townshend acts were met with struggle in the colonies leading toward the Boston massacre as enforcement of unpopular parliamentary legislation. If you once admit, that Great Britain may lay duties upon her exportations to us, for the purpose of levying money on us only … the tragedy of American liberty is finished,” stated John Dickinson on historyus.org. The colonists were angered using one example from a letter John Dickinson wrote to Parliament, Samuel Adams wrote to them as well. The colonist organized boycotts, wrote letters, and started violence harassing tax collectors and merchants. As the rage of the colonist enlarge, idea of self-governing came into with the colonist to avoid Britain’s reign. Official action had been taken in Virginia the pressure built up elsewhere to respond in similar