Revolutionary+warTP09

Would you have fired the "Shot Heard Round the World

If i was the leader of that group of colonist solidiers then i would have told them to stand up and fight. Just because of the taxation, and the boston massacre and so on.All of these events would definetly lead me up to fighting for my independence over the british because they are pretty much taxing some of our money and then the government isnt even spending it to help us. If they keep doing this we would not grow as a country and that would not be good. This would make me want a new government that would not involve the british. As you can see the british millitary can not nessisarary be trusted becuase of the boston massacre. What happened to make a man get shot right on the street is not very clear and is reason to mistrust the british millitary. The sugar act is one event that would cause reason to not like the british goverment. This act banned certain french goods, also rum, and put a 3 cent tax on all foriegn refigned sugar and even more expensive taxes on coffee, indigo, and some wine. But the british government did all of this without the consent of the colonists and the colonists wanted to have a say in how much they were taxed. Another event that leaded up to "the shot head round the world" was the stamp act. This act made it illeagal to sell any newspaper, or paphlet, or any reading material that didnt have the british seal or stamp on it. These seals cost money, and the colonist people did not think that they should have to pay for something that thay had been doing for free for so many years. The Sons of Liberty

We free englishmen must choose now to stand up and fight the British. Fire your weapons so that the British will know that we will fight for what we think is right. Remember the sugar act. How they put large taxes on goods and wines which we thought was unessesary. They did not even ask for our consent on these things. The British do not know what it is like over in this land and therefore should not tax us without representation. Why should they make laws from a thousand miles away? Another reason why we must fight them is becasue of the stamp act. This was horrible for our postal, and newspaper businesses. They made it illeagal to sell any paper without the british seal, and these seals cost money as you know. So this caused a very negative effect on us people. We will not let the British just step all over us. This event though was the one that put a spark in us to rebel, the Sons of Liberty were formed becasue of this event. Also, the boston massacre. This gave us first reason to mistrust the British mow much military. A man was just shot out on the street, even though the reason was unknown it still angered us to mistrust the military. We must show them rightnow how much we really mistrust them. Remember the Boston tea party. We showed them how we could care less about tea. Freedom is more important. The rights of us englishmen being established is far more important. We bravely boarded that ship and dumped the tea over the side, and did not leave so much as a scrach on the ship. We tried to approach these problems without violence but all of the acts that the British have done to us have left us no where else to go.As Patrick Henry once said,"Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"

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sugar act: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/sugaractdef.htm stamp act: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/stampactdef.htm patrick henry speech: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/patrickhenrydef.htm townshed acts: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/townshendactsdef.htm boston massacre: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/bostonmassacredef.htm boston tea party: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/bostonteapartydef.htm 