Why Is The American Revolution Unjust

In history, the American Revolution is a big event as it marked the beginning of the strongest country in the world in modern times. The war occurred between the British and the colonists of Britain. Many of the things the British did to their American colonists were unjust despite the fact that they had just come out of the French and Indian War. The British taxation of the American colonists was very unjust and the colonists’ actions against the British could be justified as they were upset by the unjust tyranny of King George III. Before the war began, the British Parliament took tighter control of trade within their 13 colonies due to the debt Britain was in. Britain also raised taxes in order to carry them out out of debt at the time.

“In 1765, Parliament passed an act that forced colonists to help support British soldiers who were in the colonies to keep peace. Because it included payment for the soldiers’ quarters, or rooms, it was called the Quartering Act.”(Hossell 6) Many colonists were outraged at the idea of British troops being in thier private quarters and they felt as though they did not do anything to deserve such a hefty amount of monitoring. The orders of King George III were nothing short of tyrannical as it was almost a totalitarian government over the build up to the war as King George forced troops into close quarters with his colonists across seas which sparked more acts and rebellions within the colonies. The Townshend Acts were put into effect as a response to the disobedience of the colonists towards the Quartering Act of 1765. Charles Townshend prosposed his idea that the colonists were upset that the taxes that were thrust upon them were direct and it was a form of internal taxation. Townshend thought that the colonists would not object an external tax though, and that’s where Townshend was incorrect. The colonists believed that any tax that was used to raise revenue was deemed unconstitutional and they wouldn’t see that it would be