why did the colonists rebel?

Question

i want to know why the colonists rebeled

Answer 1

The British government under George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that placed a boundary upon the westward expansion of the American colonies. The Proclamation's goal was to force colonists to negotiate with the Native Americans for the lawful purchase of the land and, therefore, to reduce the costly frontier warfare that had erupted over land conflicts. The Proclamation Line, as it came to be known, was incredibly unpopular with the Americans and ultimately became another wedge between the colonists and the British government, which would eventually lead to war.

Answer 2

a lot of it had to do with unfair taxing... like the stamp act and sugar act. These colonist were outraged that they had to pay extra for things that they couldn't get on their continent, especially by people of their home country, England. Also, Britain took credit and the profit for tobacco and other goods that the colonists exported to Europe, making it difficult to support themselves. On top of all of that , the colonists had hardly any say in governement not only because it was a monarchy, but also because the central government was across the ocean. They believed that the English rulers didn't really know what was going on in the thirteen colonies, so how could they possibly make laws that applied to the colonists. The colonists wanted a government that applied more to the colonists and not to what was going on a far distance away. Eventually they rebelled in events like the Boston Tea Party which led to the American Revolution to show that they were powerful enough to survive in America without Great Britain.

Answer 3

This is an excellent question for several reasons.

All of the correct reasons stated above are merely examples of the single reason why the Colonists rebelled.

The one reason they rebelled is that each colony based on the Crown's unique transgressions against it (taxes, representation, commerce, security, etc. etc) finally realized that the King was no longer honoring their (the Colonists) full and established and lawful rights as British Citizens.

Time after time after time the King ignored legitimate grievances and failed to treat the Colonists with the same respect and legal processes accorded to any British citizen living in any other part of the empire.

The Colonists in turn rationalized their rebellion through an unheralded union of rational thinking (Nature's laws) and the laws of God.

Answer 4

Marx had at least one thing right. As Kathleen Turner said in her movie "V. I. Warshovsky", "follow the money." Economic determinism simply says, look for the money motive. Simple, basic self-interest asks, "Why should I pay taxes to a king on the other side of the ocean when I don't get diddly squat from him, not even a say in how my taxes get spent?" Our founding fathers said it this way: "No taxation without representation."

Think about how stupid the English king had to be. One representative from the colonies in parliament would have undercut that argument. So what if the colonies' representative was outvoted 20 to 1 on a regular basis? THEY WOULD HAVE HAD THEIR SAY. They would have had to find another excuse.

Answer 5

the prosperous had a similar issues to achieve because the "no longer so prosperous" did. evaluate that the "prosperous" also had some type of income that become unfairly taxed and their organizations managed through a authorities 1000's of miles away. as far because the "issues" they'd through rebelling? Many lost their fortunes both through conflict harm, or through spending their personal money to fund the revolution. rather some the signers of the assertion of Independence were both killed, impoverished, or had their finished households murdered through the British in the course of the conflict. various patriots spent their finished fortunes footing the expenditures for military contraptions that they themselves raised.

Answer 6

"No taxation without representation" was the straw that broke the camel's back, really... it's like the role that a flower-vase played in the Colombian Independence! Anyhow, after a couple centuries of Puritan humiliation and economic exploitation... something's gotta give!

Answer 7

Umm did you not go to school???...No taxation with out representation...remember that??!!!

Answer 8

for freedom

Answer 9

NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION