A Great American Victory Analysis

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During the early American Revolution the events that took place in and around Boston are highly significant in a great American victory. The first step to a great American victory was the French and Indian war, also known as the Seven Year War. The Seven Year War was a dispute against the French, British, and Indians. It started with the French and British wanting to Ohio Valley. The French wanted it because there population was growing rapidly and they needed more land to provide for their people. The British wanted it because to them land was everything. To the British having land meant having wealth, power, and opportunity. Although Great Britain and France wanted the Ohio Valley they could not obtain it due to the fact that people had …show more content…
Britain and France decided that in order to win over the Natives for the Ohio Valley, they had to become allies with the Indians. Both traded European Goods. However, the British offered a little more to the Indians by saying that they would stop the settlers by pushing them back. To the Indians this was a good proposition. They didn’t want to become over run by the settlers nor the French. As a result, the Native Americans choose the British and the French were outraged. A war was then started between the Indians and the French. Although, the dispute was between the French and the Indians, the Indians had an extremely small population compared to the French. In order to achieve their victory, the settlers decided to help the Indians fight the French, in hope that they could build an alliance. British knew that this could infer with their plans of conquering the land for themselves. The Indians and Americas had a chance of beating the French but it was not a definite win. In order to save Britain’s plans, the British decided that they too would fight …show more content…
This was decided by the Parliament due to the fact that Britain had stationed 10,000 troops within the thirteen colonies in order to keep them safe from their enemy, the French, and their allies, the Native Americans. He believed the Americas should help pay for stationing the troops. The colonists did not find this to be fair considering that they did not have a representative in the Parliament. Not only that but it was the first true tax on the Americas, along with how impossible it was to avoid the tax since the items chosen for taxation were commonly used. The Parliament had emplaced the Tea Act which required the colonists to purchase tea from a certain company. This led to the settlers becoming outraged. To express their reactions, they began with peacefully protest and letter to King George III asking for him to remove the tax. However, everything that the colonists did went unheard and unacknowledged. The colonists felt as if they had to increase the effect of their actions leading to the event of the Boston Tea Party. The revolutionary-minded Sons of Liberty boarded three British tea ships, tossing three hundred forty-two crates of tea overboard. However, still King George III and the Parliament would not budge. As a result of the colonists’ actions, the Coercive Acts were put in place. These acts