Why Did The Colonists Start A Revolution Justified?

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In the 1700s when the settlers of Jamestown, Virginia and new colonists from Britain had widely spread throughout the east coast of the New World, the colonists grew accustomed to their own lifestyles and started to drift away from their motherland, Britain. At this time Britain had placed multiple laws or acts that took advantage of the colonies and had firm control over them, but being hundreds of miles away, the colonists also started taking action and began to revolt. In many ways American colonists were justified in revolting against Britain, if they had not done so, the current United States would not be the same way it is today. Unfair taxes, intolerable acts, unjust laws that invaded privacy, no representation in the Parliament, and many more reasons gave the colonists an urge and right to start protesting and fighting for their liberty and freedom from Britain. …show more content…
Britain continuously added new taxes to raise money for their government without thinking of the consequences that would occur in a land that was far from home. First the Parliament placed the Sugar Act in 1764 to make the colonists pay an equal amount of taxes as the citizens in Britain did, this did not affect many colonists because majority of the act was understandable. But then with the Stamp Act in 1765 many colonists were affected. This act made colonists pay for every single piece of paper that was bought, even including playing cards. Soon multiple more acts including the Townshend Acts or Intolerable Acts were added to the list of why colonists should pay an unreasonable amount of money which then led to why they had the right to
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