The American Revolution was the war between the American colonist and the British government.
The British government had been causing the American colonist many problems with their rules. As the British kept pushing and pushing the American colonist didn’t believe that this was right and had to do something. Some of the long term causes of the American Revolution was that the multiple acts that the British passed only to the colonist. Those included the Stamp Act, Molasses Act, Sugar Act, the Tea Act and others. These acts restricted the colonist from selling products especially to other lands that weren’t Britain. They added taxes to the products they sold and they even kept very strict track on the amount of money going around. As John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson state, “Soon after, the commercial intercourse of the whole colonies, with foreign countries, and with each other, was cut off by an act of parliament; by another several of them were entirely prohibited from the fisheries in the seas near their coast, on which they always depended for their substance..” (John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson, p. 3)
Before these acts piled up over the years the colonist never acted with violence. No matter what the British government put those through all of their ways of trying to get their ideas clear were civilized. As Patrick…
The British government never seemed to care about what the colonist wanted or what was best for them. All they cared about was themselves and what could benefit them in the long run. “Great Britain, without consideration, that her motive was interest not attachment; that she did not protect us from our enemies on out account, but from her enemies on her own account….” (Michael P. Johnson, p. 95) From that statement you can conclude that because the British didn’t think about how the colonist felt that’s what led them to there up…
