Apush Dbq Research Paper

This act angered many colonists as they believed they had certain freedoms that were being violated (Doc 10). The Stamp Act was unconstitutional, and invalidating to Englishmen’s rights. Colonists stated, taxes should only be imposed when those getting taxed consent to it, which the British obviously did not do. This violation enraged the Colonists, for good reason, causing their revolting actions. The Townshend Act was, yet again, a Parliament granted and freedom violating law (Ch 4.1 Notes).

I believe the Founding Fathers were justified in rebelling against the British Government and declaring war. It all started prior to the French and Indian war (1756-1763), the colonists possessed substantial self-reliance and liberty. Following the conflict, the British Empire strongly challenged the self-reliance and liberty, and also resolved that the colonists directly pay taxes into the imperial chest to help reduce the huge debt from the war.

American colonists should support the Declaration of Independence and the Patriots in the Revolutionary War. Great Britain was taxing the American colonists because of Britain’s great debt from the French and Indian War. Britain made the quartering act, the stamp act, townshend act, and the tea act. This is taxation without representation and it was unjust. The Patriots were angry and rightfully so. The King was making the colonists pay taxes on imported goods to decrease his country’s debt, the Patriots were outraged and wanted freedom.

The colonists were in every right, aspect and mind, not only justified but also it was about time that they stood of and actually take action against the British. The choice of going to war with them, was the only choice that they had. All diplimatical options that they had ceased to stand a chance against the tyrant Britain. From the very beginning when the colonists felt upset against their mother country and the way that they went about the law making, up until the beginning of the war, they tried all diplimatical options that they had, by sending letters, you name it. When they didn’t work then they had no other means but to declare war.

In 1773 parliament passed the tea act in which the British pay less for tax to ship places. This made the prices of tea lower from Britain. Since Boston's tea would be more expensive nobody would buy it from them. The tea act was just another problem adding up between the colonists and britain. This made the colonists want to be independent from Britain. The colonists decided to rebel and dumb three hundred and forty two chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The act was given the name the Boston Tea Party. Most of the British thought of the Boston Tea Party as an act of terrorism. Really the Boston Tea Party was just another step to independence for the colonists.

After much protest to this act, the British Parliament put in place the Declaratory Act of 1766, which repealed the Stamp Act but also gave Parliament the full power to tax colonists in the future. After these acts came the Townshend Acts which imposed further taxes on goods like glass, paper, and tea; all products, the British knew, that would bring in considerable revenue because they were staples of colonial life. Then there was the issue of a privacy breach under the writs of assistance which allowed British

I believe the colonists were justified in rebelling against the British, because of the abusive king and British parliament, the taxes without representation, the laws without consent of colonists (such as the Quartering Act), and deaths of the colonists in brutal events, such as the Boston Massacre. All these events combined caused outrage throughout the colonies (such as the Boston Tea Party, and tarring and feathering of British officials), and sparked a rebellion that would change the history of the colonies forever.

“Give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry. I believe that the Colonists were justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain and the King. King George was making the Colonists pay very unfair taxes, he was trying to rule over them from all the way over in England, and he wouldn’t take the colonies legislators opinions into consideration. While some people may say that the Colonists were just unappreciative, that is not correct. They continued to stay with the King until the King turned on them and made them do things they didn’t want to do and shouldn’t have to do.

“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fear the people, there is liberty.” The British government was feared by the American colonists in the seventeen hundreds, so that means there was tyranny. The American colonists were justified in fighting a war to break away from Britain because they were not being represented by Britain, and King George was abusing his power on them.

In the late eighteenth century, North American British Colonies worked to free themselves and create their own governing body. Some ideas stated by revolutionaries helped to unite the colonies in a single governing body and revolt against the existing government. The primary driving forces of the revolutionaries included the belief that humans had the right to freedom and to govern themselves, and that they had certain natural rights that the ruling government of Britain was not allowing them, as well as a general hatred for the ruling power of the European monarchy. These ideas that were so prevalent in the colonies were stated by many different revolutionaries, but many of them held the same idea, freedom was a right that was shared by all

The Boston Tea Party happened on December 16, 1773. The sons of liberty boarded 3 ships and dumped tea into the Boston harbor. They did this because of the British oppression. The British said they would have to pay all the tea off or the harbor will be closed.

Neither citizens were given any sort of power in government. The king and Parliament of Britain were running rampant without power. The British Constitution stated that there was to be a House of Commons along with a Parliament (Document #1). This was to allow citizens to have power and a say in government. Sir William Meredith, a British politician, referred to Britain as a republic. Thomas Paine, the author of Common Sense, laughed and stated that the government was not worth of that title (Document #1). Thomas Paine understand the entire extent of the king’s overwhelming power. If the House of Commons (the people) was listened to, then the king’s power would have been lessened. The king wanted to be the most powerful and have the last and most important say in all matters. Because of this, the king made sure his power was taken seriously in all spaces of the realm (Document #1). Thomas Paine states that the reason colonists are not retaliating is because they think they have power because they have the House of Commons (Document #1). But what they don’t realize is that their opinion is not listened to. Thomas Paine wanted to pursue the ideas of important figures that were fighting for independence. He attempted to persuade other Americans that were hesitant to join the dream for freedom. He wanted everyone to follow the new nation and its goal to institute a new superior government that will allow them to have more power in say in the

Colonists became furious with the Stamp Act and many people boycotted. They refused to pay taxes, ignored the stamps, and they even formed a secret society called the Sons of Liberty. Eventually, Parliament repealed the act but created the Declaratory Act. This showed that the Parliament had the right to make any laws. In 1767, they passed the Townshend Act which placed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. This angered the colonists once again because it took power away from colonial

The Founding fathers justified in rebelling against the British government and declaring independence because of how the British government treated the colonists, the Monarchy, was unjust. The Founding Fathers declared independence from Britain for the people, and to make a fair, and form a just government.

Then the angry colonists received another tax in 1767 called the Townshend Acts. It made them pay extra for imported goods from Britain and outlawed them getting imported goods from anywhere else.