The American Revolution Started Because of England’s Attempts to Use the Colonies as a Cash Cow. The USA Today is the Same for Elites and Another US Revolution is Due.

The American Revolution started when the Colonists finally had enough of King George’s oppression.

During this period, the groundwork was beginning for the different colonies to organize and band together to declare independence.

There was no single event that caused the revolution to start, but a series of laws passed by England really made the Colonists unhappy.

Once their unhappiness reached a breaking point the American Revolution started and the Colonists decided it was time to break away from English Rule.

What really pushed the Colonists over the edge were the taxes that the British King kept levying on the Colonists.

At that time England had colonies all over the world, America was just one country of many that was ruled by England.

In order to raise the money needed to maintain a massive navy and pay for things at home the King began taxing almost everything that the Colonists used in their day to day lives.

The Colonists had no choice but to pay the taxes or go without items they needed.

Some of the taxes were simply ridiculous and clearly designed only to make money for the Crown, like the Stamp Tax.

The Stamp Tax declared that every piece of paper used by the Colonists needed to have the British stamp on it.

Back then fewer people were literate so they didn’t use as much paper as people use today but writing letters was the primary form of communication which required a lot of paper.

Merchants also used a lot of paper in keeping their accounts. When the British King decided to tax tea the American Revolution started in earnest.

At the time tea was the most popular drink in the Colonies and people drank tea everyday.

The taxes that were charged on the tea were high and meant that most people would have to stop drinking tea. For the Colonists that was the proverbial last straw.

What Colonists Wanted

Even though the tax on tea was what pushed the Colonists to finally organize and fight for independence the issue of taxation was one of the underlying causes of the Colonists’ unhappiness.

The constant taxes that the King decided the Colonists needed to pay weren’t fair because the Colonists didn’t have anyone to speak for them back in England.

The leaders of the new United States felt that taxation without representation was inherently unfair and was not lawful.

This was a major point of contention that paved the way to that fateful day when the American revolution started.

The leaders of the US decided to declare independence from England and sever all ties with the English so that they would no longer be English subjects but would be citizens of a new nation that would be run according to Democratic principles where all citizens would have a voice and be represented in the government.

Adding Some Muscle

At that time England was the superpower in the world, and it would have been impossible for a fledgling nation like the US to take England on without some allies sending in military support like troops, weapons, and ships.

The United States enlisted the help of England’s biggest enemy, France, to help fight British forces in the US. Several Native American tribes and the Dutch also joined forced with the Colonists to try and force the British to leave the United States.

French troops, French ships, and French weapons were critically important to the success of the United States in the Revolutionary War.

But just as critical were the tireless efforts of the men who would later become the founding fathers of the new United States.

They Started it all

The Founding Fathers of the United States created the US to be a country where every citizen had equal rights, and participated equally in the government.

All citizens were to be represented and heard. The idea of a Democracy was practically unheard of at that time and there were very few working democracies in the world at that time.

For the people who came to the United States originally to escape religious persecution, poverty, debt, and rigid social classes the idea of a country where everyone was equal seemed like the dream that they had been waiting for.

Everyone who enjoys the privileges of citizenship in the US should remember that with those rights come responsibilities, like the responsibility to be an educated and active participant in the government.

The Founding Fathers wanted the US to be a citizen run government.