yellowcanoe wrote:aadbrd wrote:Newfie wrote:But also the Revolution (George Washington) was also an insurrection.
The rationale for the Revolutionary War was not based on a "Big Lie" and a basket of assorted conspiracy theories.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. The written history seems to focus on the American Revolution starting as a tax revolt though a documentary I saw on the A&E channel claimed that the reality was that the colonists were paying less tax than people in Britain. However, I think the real roots of the revolution lie with the Proclamation of 1763 where the British agreed not to advance further west into Indian territory, which essentially disallowed expansion of the 13 colonies westward.
A proclamation in 1763 did not cause a revolution 12 years later.
The actual cause of the US revolution was a series of tax increases that the imposed on the American colonies in the years after 1763 in an attempt to cover the debt the British had incurred fighting the French and Indian war. When the colonies resisted paying the extra taxes, as exemplified by the Boston Tea Party, the British imposed even stricter controls. Finally the British imposed the INTOLERABLE ACTS, stripping away all self government from the Massachusetts colony. The Brits thought that imposing direct rule would force the colonists to obey the Crown and pay the extra taxes, but instead it led to armed conflict between the colonists and the British troops at Lexington and Concord. Following these events the colonies all sent delegations to a "continental congress" in Philadelphia, where independence was declared.
After the British foolishly imposed the INTOLERABLE ACTS on the Massachusetss colony, the colonists fought back against the British at Lexington and Concord. This led directly to a convention of all the colonies and the declaration of independence
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