Causes of the Revolutionary War-

A detailed Summary of Causes of the Revolutionary War-

During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events

resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions of

rights of the colonists will slowly be changed as the constriction of

the parliament becomes more and more intolerable. During the Seven

Years' War England was not only alarmed by the colonists' insistence

on trading with the enemy, but also with Boston merchants hiring James

Otis inorder to protest the legality of the writs of assistance

(general search warrants) used to hunt out smuggled goods. "let the

parliament lay what burthens they please on us, we must, it is our

duty to submit and patiently bear them, till they will be pleased to

relieve us....". This is a very strong dictum, that in 1764, the

colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading for

self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge

conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded.

On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary

Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the

grip of the English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these

colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that

self-autonomy with respect to colonial economics.

gained their rights through resistence to an imperial power. This

Majesty's colonies and plantations in America, have of late, against

Britain, this policy angered the colonists very much, and was another

the commercial benefits of it's respective members excluding every

independance and still dogmatilcally passed the following law to show

these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it,

said colonies....be it declared ...., that the said colonies and

that the colonists were still british subjects. Again, the colonists

this center of power was the rights of the colonists, the colonists

colonists. The colonists acquire their rights through resistance to

transition occurs. The transition has to do with the rights of the

congress had presented it's colonial rights. These rights enable the

principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall

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