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4 Reasons Colonists Rebelled Against Britain Analysis

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Great Britain was a powerful empire that took rights away from their citizens. They, also, shunned their people because they did not practice the same religion as them. They favored other colonies or territories if they had the same religious views and rewarded them. Even though this is how the throne treated its subjects, colonists in America were still loyal to them. Even though it could have made wars less perilous if they stayed with Great Britain, the colonists were right to rebel against the king. The King senselessly abused his power while running over his land. In " 4 Reasons Colonists Rebelled Against Britain" it has written, "The policy was both senseless and an abuse of power, a dangerous omen for an imperial power attempting to govern a fiercely independent people." Because of this action made by the King, colonists trust and faith in the Crown dwindled rather quickly. The article, also, said" I had always understood from our charters that our laws were to be made by our Assemblies, to be presented indeed to the king for his royal assent, but that being once given the king could not repeal or alter them... He assured me I was totally mistaken." Suspicion and paranoia arose as this …show more content…

Great Britain's empire was religiously divided with Protestant colonies in North America and Catholics everywhere else in the Empire. The caused tension between the empire and the colonies. Jon Miltimore has wrote, "The legislation, which put Canada on a path toward self-government, was designed to keep the British subjects to the North loyal to the Crown, Johnson notes. In this it succeeded—but it also created a sort of paranoia in the colonies." Paranoia spreads throughout the colonies because they thought that Great Britain would take away their rights and they could never self-govern themselves like Canada. This is another reason the colonists disobeyed the

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