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To What Extent Were The Colonists Justified In The Revolutionary Rebellion

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The colonists were completely justified in starting the rebellion. While the actions by the British weren't completely unjustified the American Colonists were able to sustain themselves fully. The British continuously had chances to allow the colonists have the freedoms they needed and still be business partners but the British acted irrationally and took the small wars personally. The British denied the colonists of their rights unfairly. Then to make it worse, The British made the colonists accommodate soldiers the colonists didn't need. All this shows how the colonists were justified in starting the rebellion. The colonists had every right to rebel. Their rebellion was based on the simple fact that they had been denied their "rights as Englishmen," (seen in the English Bill of …show more content…

The British continuously denied them of freedom, even though they showed the could handle it well, they deserved to have much more control over their own government than they had as expressed by Robert Walpole (Document 11). They wanted the colonies for self-serving reasons, only enforcing rules on the colonists when it benefited them. It was wrong of the British to deny them their rights like representation in the British Parliament. They were a populous and sizable set of colonies that had the credentials to become their own country. It was beneficial and logical for the Americans to break away, though the British's actions were not unreasonable. America was a growing country who was going to break away anyway. American colonists had the population and the experience, the British would have had to give the colonists a lot more free rein to have them loyal to Britain a lot longer. The rebellion was justified not so much because of what the British did but because of the way they did it. As long as they acted without giving the Americans much of a say in the government, it was justifiable for the Americans to

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