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 * revolutionary-** a sudden, complete, or marked change.

**__FIVE EVENTS THAT LED TO REVOLUTIONARY WAR-__**
-an act that added three cents tax to the cost of foreign refined sugar. -also led to tax increase on coffee, indigo, and some kinds of wine. -the increase on the amount to be payed for wine banned imports of rum and french wine. -this causes an uproar within the colonists.
 * The Sugar Act:**

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/sugaractdef.htm

- every newspaper, pamphlet, and other public and legal documents had to have a stamp, or British seal, on it. -the stamp used to be free but now cost money - they decided to form The Stamp Act Congress which resulted in hostility toward the colonist and British -repealed the Stamp Act in March of 1766 and passed Declaratory Act, which stated that Great Britian was the boss of American colonies.
 * The Stamp Act:**

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/stampactdef.htm

-March 5, 1770, five American colonists were shot by the British -debating on whether weapons were involved but it was clear because they did open fire -American colonists distrust the British army even more now.
 * Boston Massacre:**

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/bostonmassacredef.htm

-**new tax on tea. -colonists dressed up as Mohawk Native Americans and went into three ships -the threw 342 crates of tea overboard on December 16, 1773.
 * Bosten Tea Party:

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/bostonteapartydef.htm

"Is it worth war to save a few pence in taxes?"
 * __GOOD POINTS FROM A BOOK-__**

"What's the point of being free if you died fighting for it." __My Brother Sam is Dead__ by James Collier and Christopher Collier

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/revolutionarywartimeline.htm
 * __Other Site Sources-__**

= = =__Rough Draft-__=

Here we are on April 19, 1775, standing here wait for those Lobsterbacks to march toward us. I can hear their drums tempo now. Some of us are willing to risk our lives on the line right now, they are up for fighting for their freedom. Apparently that is worth dying for to them. Why is that? Why are you willing to end everything, to loss your family and loss whatever you had going for you in the future? While some of us are having second thoughts about death, and are tempting the thought of fleeing back to their loved ones. To those men I agree with.

Yes, the British have taxed us more and they might even continue. They raised taxes on coffee, indigo, wine, and we now have to pay a whopping three cents more for foreign sugar during the Sugar Act. We the colonists got mad and upset, but is money worth dying for?

Then the British started requiring a simple stamp or British seal on it, which is when the British finally made stamps cost money. We had to stamp newspaper and pamphlets. This then lead to the Stamp Act Congress which only added more hostility toward the British. Hostility that we already have enough of. In March of 1766 the Declaratory Act was passed. The Declaratory Act stated that the British is the boss of the American colonists. We the colonists got mad and upset, but is a silly label of "boss" worth dying for?

On March 5, 1770 the British withdrew their weapons. They shot and killed five American colonists then denied their unholy action. By that time we distrusted the British Army even more. This event was known as the Boston Massacre. We the colonists got mad and upset, but is more death worth dying for?

Finally comes the tax on tea. We got extremely mad, so mad that we took action. The night of December 16, 1773, we dressed up as Mohawk Native Americans and entered those three ships. From there we threw 342 crates of tea overboard. The Boston Tea Party just simply left us tealess. We the colonists got mad and upset, but is tea worth dying for?

If these taxes effected us so much then we wouldn't be here right now. If the extra money we spent on these things made us budget our lives so much we wouldn't have a weapon in our arms nor cloths on our back, not even a house for our family to live under. Don't picture us not fighting as fleeing, picture it as saving a life that isn't ready to be lost yet.