American History I students have been studying the events leading to the American Revolution. Beginning with the French-Indian War, the Albany Plan of Union, and concluding with the pamphlet Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
EXTRA CREDIT: What do you think is the most important event or cause that led to the American Revolution and why?
I think that I would have to be the Boston tea party. I think that it was a big part of standing up and not letting people just be run by someone that is a whole other world away. I think that it is imported that people stand up for what they be leave in and not get pushed around by others or so called king that rule them. - Laura Williams 3rd period
ReplyDeleteThe most important event or cause that led to the American Revolution was the British didn't give the colonist the freedom that they wanted.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the most important event that led up to the Revolution was the French and Indian War because it was one of the bloodiest and did the most damage. It was a war between the English and French, and affected people on 3 different continents. This war was over colonial territory. - Amanda Peterson
ReplyDeleteI believe the most important event leading to the American Revolution was French and Indian War. The British were in debt from the war so they taxed the American colonists since they were still under British rule. Many officers stayed behind in the colonies to "protect the colonists" in actuality control and mandate them. This angered the colonists causing them to rebel and boycott taxes leading to the American Revolution. Jenna Komac 3rd period
ReplyDeleteThe most important cause that lead to the revolution, in my opinion, would have to be the cause of self-governance. Had the Albany Plan of Union been successful, I believe the revolution would've been unnecessary. The colonists were fine with being under the crown, they just wanted a modicum of control of themselves. The Albany Plan would've likely satisfied that, and America would likely still be a colony/part of the Monarchy.
ReplyDeleteI think it were the Acts as a whole thing that brought both British and the Colonists far apart from each other, the fact, that there was no representative of the Crown and that the British ignored the mood of the Colonists completely because if the had watched the reactions in the Colonies more carefully they could have changed the way they acted.
ReplyDeleteI personally think that when the British started taxing for money to pay for he war that is when it really began because it really angered the colonist. The colonist did not like having to pay for something that they always were able to get free so they started boycotting for British goods. Money was definitely a major cause of the American Revolution.
ReplyDelete>Allissa Warren<
I believe altogether the main cause of the American Revolution was that the British were still trying to keep control of the new colonies, and they were forced to rebel from the laws to try, and have their own rules, and laws that weren't controlled by England.
ReplyDeleteCharity Parsons 3rd period
The British's attempts to pay for the French and Indian war through taxes were the first act that lead to the escalation of acts that lead to the revolutionary war. The British passed the stamp act and gave out writs of assistance thus causing the colonists to boycott goods and resist the violation of privacy by the British. The British and the colonists went back and forth and continued to escalate to the point were the colonists fight back in the revolutionary war.
ReplyDelete~Brian Sturdevant 3rd period