Guilt In The Revolutionary War

Some say the British were to blame because the British shot and killed 5 colonist in the Boston Massacre, the British had too many rules and acts, and the British shut down all the trades in and out of Boston, some say the British are to blame, and some say the colonist and British are to blame. About 73% of people think the British are to blame. Some reasons are because the British shot and killed 5 colonist in the Boston Massacre, the British had too many rules and acts, and the British shut down all the trades in and out of Boston. The first reason the British are to blame are because the British soldiers shot and killed 5 people in the Boston Massacre. The events in the heading to the Boston massacre might have tempted the British, but the British soldiers shouldn’t have shot into an unarmed crowd and killed 5 colonist (1 got shot and died instantly, the other 4 colonists had gotten shot and died because the colonist lost too much blood.) Another reason is that the British put too much pressure and by all the acts like the Tea Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act ect.

All the acts the British did put too much pressure on the colonists to make them start fighting and boycotting. The next reason is because the British did too much rules and acts. The first piece of evidence is that they gave too many acts that taxed the colonist till the colonist were bankrupt, or stopped all the colonist from trading all together. The acts that the British made were the Stamp act (an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act’s repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown.), the Quartering act (On this day in 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies), Townshend act (The Townshend Acts were a series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America.

The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program), and the Tea act (The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party). Another piece of evidence is that in the Coercive Acts, or the so called “the Intolerable Acts” as the colonist called it. The Intolerable Acts let the British sleep and get feed from private colonist houses, and stopped all trades with the outside world. Another reason is that the British stopped all trades with the outside world. First piece of evidence is that the British stopped all the trades from boston, until the tea was paid for from the Boston Tea Party. Also during this the British called the stuff the British were doing to Boston the Coercive Acts, (also known as the Intolerable acts.) and that let the British soldiers to sleep and get feed from private families in Boston. There are some ideas that conflict with the British are to blame, like the colonist are to blame because the Sons of Liberty threatened and committed acts of violence.

Another reason is that the colonist burned effigies, also tar and feathered British soldiers. In conclusion the colonist are not clean with what they did like they tarred and feathered, but the British are worse because they killed five people, and stopped all trades from Boston, and the British put too much pressure on the colonists because of all the rules and acts the British made. Editing Checklist (M) Check through each body paragraph and make sure that there is a topic sentence that links to the claim of the essay. (E) Check through each body paragraph and make sure that there are two detailed pieces of evidence in each paragraph. Is the evidence detailed? (A) Check through each body paragraph and make sure that you have provided an interpretation of the evidence that explains how the evidence is connected to the main idea. (L) Finally, check to see that each paragraph has an ending sentence that links the topic of the paragraph back to the claim of the essay. Check to see that you made a clear claim at the beginning of the essay. Does your claim make sense? Check through to see how you used quotes. There should only be a few small quotes, and they should only be from primary sources.

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