The American Revolution: Independence of the thirteen colonies
Introduction.
The American Revolution was motivated by many different reasons, the settlers were promoted by many factors to declare their independence from Great Britain, some of these include economic, political and social issues. However, the main cause of the American revolution was that the colonies did not accept the domain of Great Britain and wanted to become independent to be able to govern themselves. In this essay I will review one of the important events and how it had to do with the revolution and in why they wanted to separate.
Developing.
The British had control of the thirteen colonies for years before the French and Indian war. After the Great Britain, he took possession of the thirteen colonies, as shown in document number 1, the French and Indian war had indebted Great Britain and for that reason they began to collect taxes on the settlers, they also began to enforce the lawsFrom the king of England, that led to the phrase "There are no taxes without representation".
No ship could enter or leave until the settlers could pay, the British officials needed accommodation could include the houses of the settlers and could not do anything without government permission. This caused the settlers to react to taxes and laws negatively.
In March 1765 the Tax of the Timbre became law forcing any written or printed document to place a unique seal and be able to distribute it. In document 2b we see how the law of bell affected the life of the settlers, since it imposed a tax on the colonies and this caused many newspapers to end, since they could not assume the costs of that economic censorship, one of the most importantIt was called "El Espectador".
Conclusions.
With the approval of the law of bell the merchants of the colonies rebelled and realized that the British were abusing them giving them high taxes and trying to enslave them. The Sugar Law and the Law of Timbre caused colonial protests and objections, the settlers formed rebel associations, the purpose wasprevent the safety of their assets being taken by the Parliament in which they had no representation.
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