American+Revolution+Glog

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I do not think that the outbreak of the American Revolution was inevitable. I think the war could have been prevented at many stages__, **when the British passed the Navigation acts, the Stamp Act, the Sugar Act, and the Townshend Acts. The war was not neccesary and the problems between the British and the colonies could have been resolved.** __ It could all go back to the Navigation Acts and and before, to the salutary neglect, when the British were ignoring the colonies and hoping that they would thrive by themselves**. __If the British had kept a firm control and cared about the colonies from the start, the colonists would have gotten used to British rule and wouldn’t start opposing Parliament when Parliament passed the Navigation Acts so that the colonies would remain profitable to them. __ ** The British should of thought and passed those laws and not have just let the colonists go their own way and let them do whatever they wanted. If the British had kept firmer control over the colonies, then I think the colonists wouldn’t have formed and become used to the idea that they owned themselves**__, that they governed themselves, and that no-one else could control them. When the British tried to regain control over the colonies after so many years of self government, the colonists felt that this was unfair to them that the British tried to tax them, even though they were part of of the British empire too and were still governed by the British. __ ** I think another stage that the War could have been prevented was when parliament started passing taxes on the colonists: The stamp act, the sugar act, and the townshend acts. With every new tax that British passed, the colonists complained about not having a say in Parliament**__ and smuggled what they wanted instead. __ ** If the colonists were just offered a few seats in Parliament, **__which would have been fair, because they were part of the empire __ **, all of the protests and complaints that the colonists had could have been stopped. Giving a few seats to the colonies wouldn't have changed much in Parliament, containing hundreds of people. The colonists would have a say in what goes on, the British still can keep control over the colonies, and the their government wouldn't be disrupted much, because a couple people voting against a few hundred people won't change the result much. I think the American Revolution could have also been prevented if the colonists had been more understanding about the British predicament after the 7 year's war. The British protected the colonies throughout the war and Britain was their mother country. The British needed money to pay off their national debt, and were adding taxes to people all over the empire. The British taxed the colonists way less than the people living in Britain, and the colonists still had the best living conditions. The colonists really should not have been complaining about the miniscule taxes that were levied on them and should have helped the British because the British helped them in the 7 year's war. **__The colonists were the ones being unfair, complaining about tiny taxes, even though the other citizens of Britain were paying more, and refusing to help their mother country recover from a war that was fought to protect them. The taxes would have also benefited both sides __ **because the colonists are still getitng protection from the British, and the British are getting help paying off debt. 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