Why Was The American Revolution Inevitable

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Connie Specyalski Mr. Luft AP U.S. History & Politics 7 March 2013 Chapter 4 Essay Some say that the Revolution was inevitable, others argue that it would not have happened if it weren't for a set of issues that finally drove the colonists to revolt. These issues were Parliamentary taxation, the restriction of civil liberties, the measures of the British military, and the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas. Due to the violation of civil and economic rights, the British policies prompted the colonists’ resentment towards Britain to grow substantially, thus leading to the American Revolution. As a result of the Seven Years War, Britain was in debt and its economy was in recession. So, in order to fix this, the British…show more content…
Religion was the reason why colonists left the mother country in the first place. This is because the majority of them really wanted to leave the Puritan Church. In addition to this, by the time of the revolution, the colonies were not only separated by belief from Great Britain, but they were also religiously fragmented. The Anglican Church, the official church of some colonies, had served as a kingly authority. This angered the new world’s variety of faiths. For one, the church did not serve the needs of the people and it didn't hold up its promises to the people, holding true to English authority and trying to impose itself on other colonies. When the Quebec Act was passed, granting large territories to the defeated French Catholics, the colonists feared that protestant religion would suffer. Politically, colonists in North America had developed something different from Great Britain’s. The British colonies in America had a policy of Salutary Neglect, which meant that the British would not interfere with the colonies national or international affairs. This provided the colonies with a few benefits, such as experiencing forms of democracy and being able to experience independence, in which they took for granted, eventually resulting in America considering itself separate from Great Britain. The turning point from salutary neglect- an attempt to enforce English policies-was during…show more content…
In the beginning, very few had wanted to separate from the mother country. If Britain had avoided Salutary Neglect, things could have gone differently. America may have still been part of their powerful country for a while longer. But one could not know for sure. Maybe if parliamentary taxation wasn’t so ridiculous, or the military measures hadn’t been taken to the extent it did, restricting civil liberties. The American Revolution was, no doubt, inevitable. We already know why British colonists separated from them in the first place. Because there was already a group of citizens who had opposed with their ways; it was in a religious aspect. Surely, if they found a reason to leave Britain, new reasons would be easy to find. And they found
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