Washington waited for reinforcements and then attacked this fort, Fort Duquesne in 1754, marking the first bloodshed in the war. In 1756, after the conflict between the French and British turned into a world war, the British government changed. This change brought William Pitt into office as the head of the ministry. Some of Pitt’s actions and decisions not helped win the war in America, but they also were responsible for creating nationalistic views amongst members of the colonies. Pitt treated the colonists as allies rather than as servants that must follow orders.
Unlike the British, the French are friendly with the Native American Indian tribes living in America, and the French pay them for land and treat them fairly, while the British take Indian lands and don’t treat them fairly, so the French are prepared to fight the British over land. The French and Indians join forces to fight the British. Among the many attempts to unite the colonies, Benjamin Franklin wants to unite the colonies against France, this plan is called the Albany Plan of union – to unite all of the colonies. Parliament rejects this plan, and war breaks out in 1754 between the French and Indians and the British. They are fighting over power and land in the Ohio Valley.
A). Therefore, they won the war but it didn’t bring them that much happiness as they thought it would. The English were controlling the eastern part of the New World until the French came and divided the land. Therefore, both countries wanted the Appalachian lands. The Indians knew about it and were angered by the Englishmen who wanted to take their land for farming.
Because of this decision, England changed its fighting style and had neglected their control over the colonies to focus on winning. After successfully defeating the French and their allies, the Treaty of Paris was signed. In this treaty, it stated what England, France, Spain, and the American colonies had won control over or lost. England had control of half of North America, while France had lost their control of North America. The colonies had thought they won the freedom to expand their colonies further west.
These are the reasons that government is instituted. When a government fails to protect those rights, people also have the right to overthrow that government. Jefferson lists twenty-seven abuses from the King of Great Britain. All the abuses state that the king has interfered with the colonists’ rights. The colonial governments tried to reach a peaceful reconciliation of these differences with Great Britain, but were continually ignored.
The American Revolution Shawn Power September 8, 2008 There were many causes of the Revolutionary War. Some of them are the French and Indian War, Taxation, and England’s neglect to the colonies. All of these events caused the colonist to get together and talk about what England was doing to the colonies. England’s neglect to the colonies was a big cause of the American Revolutionary War. This neglect involved the development of triangular trade, trade laws, trials without juries.
April 5, 1764: The Sugar Act: The Molasses Act of 1733 placed a high tariff on sugar. As a result, American importers found it difficult and avoided paying the tariff. In order to prevent bribery and corruption that resulted from not wanting to pay this tariff, the Sugar Act of 1764 was introduced. Its significance, apart from to stop American importers from bribing the custom collectors, was to lower the tariff and to ensure that the lower tariff was being collected March 5, 1770: The Boston Massacre: The Boston Massacre caused tensions to rise enormously between the Americans and British because this was the first killing that occurred. The Americans realized that the British were not there to help them, but instead to put an end to their liberty.
The American Revolution did not satisfy the colonial goals for civil, political, social, and economic rights; however the Constitution did. All the American Revolution did was drive the British out of America. With the British gone the Americans had the ability to strive for civil, political, social, and economic rights, but the Articles of Confederation became an obstacle in their path to their rightful goals. During the American Revolution the American people wrote a lot about what they wanted to accomplish and attain. In Document A, the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms, it is written that the American people feel they have been wronged by England because their rights are restricted and wish for these basic rights to happiness and such.
This goes on to explain why the changes in British policy toward the colonies lead to the outbreak of the American Revolution. After the Seven Years’ War ended Great Britain and the colonies separated. This allowed the colonies to seek their independence but left a huge debt for Great Britain. Great Britain forced the colonies to pay the cost
Thomas Jefferson once claimed, “A democracy cannot be both ignorant and free.” (Thomas Jefferson) This was the commonly held attitude of the “enlightened” men who settled the United States. The inhabitants of the North American colonies did not have a legal right to express opposition to the British government that ruled them. Nonetheless, throughout the late 1700s, these early Americans did voice their discontent with the Crown. The early Americans also frequently criticized the much despised local representatives of the Crown. But they protested at their peril, for the English common law doctrine of "seditious libel" had been incorporated into the law of the American colonies, That doctrine permitted prosecution for "false, scandalous and