Why Was The American Revolution Inevitable

Some say that the Revolution was inevitable ever since settlers arrived in America, others would argue that it never would have happened if it weren't for the set of problems that finally drove the colonists to revolt. Inescapably, Britain lost control due to the colonists believing that the British were treating them unfairly. While Britain passed many tax laws, the colonists had no representatives in parliament to vote on or discuss these laws, proving their assumptions true, as the colonists had no such voice in British government. Along with taxation, the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas, British military measures, and Restrictions of Civil Liberty which few compromises could be made drove the colonists to declare freedom …show more content…
The British government had good reason to tax the colonies, being that they just went to war to defend them. That the colonists understood, but they didn't appreciate the fact that they had no say into how the debt of the war would be paid. The British passed the Townshend Acts to counterbalance debt from the war. This caused the colonist to reestablish the boycott on luxury items. England then passed the Tea Act taxing imported tea, but also gives the British Tea Co. a monopoly, removing the middleman out of the deal, thus putting American merchants virtually out of business. As time went on, and the British got a little more anxious about the colonies' acts of uprising, they decide to try and stop it by taking away a basic right, the right to free assembly. Enraging the colonist further. The most significant problem leading the Americans to rebel in 1776 is clearly parliamentary taxation. The first time a parliamentary imposed tax endangered the very livelihood of the colonies was with the Molasses Act in 1733, derived from the loss of profit for the British West Indies, taxing all ‘non-British’ molasses to make the colonists buy from them rather than the French West Indies. However, this act was avoidable and rarely paid. Being able to separate themselves from Britain rule was justified in a sense that England was taxing the colonies without fair representation in

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