What Is The Appropriate Response To American Revolution

The Appropriate Response

Craige A. Sears

Columbia Southern University

The Stamp Act and the Appropriate Response

The American Revolution did not cause the effects of the events that took place or any single legislation. The British government was the result of some factors playing against the wellbeing of the colonists. Between 1763 and 1775 a series of laws related to taxation could possibly be an important factor that instigated the American Revolution. The legislations most likely began the debate starting on what the nature of the responses should be and how it should be. The responses should've been civil, but there were others that preferred other means to get their point across. The British had no choice but to repealed the stamp act.

Even though the Stamp Act instigated fierce resistance, majority of the colonists continued to accept the authority of the British Parliament in respect of regulating their trades, “they insisted that only their representative assemblies could levy direct, internal taxes, such as the one imposed by the Stamp Act” The colonist plea was overlooked by the British government which argued that “all British subjects enjoyed virtual representation in Parliament, even if they could not vote for members of Parliament” The failure of those who were suppose to force the British government to rethink the taxation process, the radicals started hinting on extreme measures for repealing the Stamp Act. It is to be noted, “These radical voices warned that the tax was part of a gradual plot to deprive the colonists of their freedoms and to enslave them beneath a tyrannical regime”. Yet, the radicals had opponents, but the opponents failed to resist the radicals that would change the face of American politics