To What Extent Was The Revolutionary War Inevitable

I believe that the Revolutionary war was inevitable due to the conflicts that occurred between the nations which lead up to the event.
To begin with, the British had implemented harsh laws on the colonists. For instance, the Stamp Act of 1765 stirred up tensions between the colonists and Great Britain tremendously. It was the first internal tax tolled directly on American colonists by the British government. There was no consent given by the American colonies, and all funds would go directly to the government of Great Britain. The act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was in debt from the Seven Years’ War and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. Arguing that only their own representative assemblies could tax them, the colonists insisted that the act was unconstitutional, and they resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning. The colonists were also angered as the British had taxed only women, servants, and children in their country (of Great Britain). This made the colonists feel as if they were on the same level (social standing) as those individuals, which was quite degrading in their opinion. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766, but issued a Declaratory Act on that very same day to reaffirm its authority to pass any colonial legislation they desired. The issues of taxation and representation raised by the Stamp …show more content…
To explain how this event occurred, in March 1770, Parliament repealed the duties, with the symbolic exception of the tax on tea. Relations continued to deteriorate and the American resistance became more stubborn. In December 1773, the Boston Tea Party protestors dumped thousands of pounds worth of tea into the Boston harbor in protest of the tea duty. In consequence, Parliament adopted a series of measures and Massachusetts was placed under military rule in