Revolutionary Letter

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The American Times: The Chronicles of Freedom

Dear Editor,

        I am Ethan Allen, an American patriot, and I am writing to you about why I am not against the Revolution. First off, we the Americans feel as the sole arbitrary ruler, the King or Parliament, have violated our intrinsic rights, so that the rebellion is justified. In fact, we have been convinced into thinking and accepting the principle that natural laws rather than royal decrees should govern the economy. Throughout the following years we have adapted and learned to cherish the British lifestyle. One example is how reverent the southern colonies were to England by their tobacco trade. Secondly, I support the revolution because of the number of acts that were passed by the loyalists. There was the stamp act that protested upon the principle of ‘no taxation without representation’. This act was affecting virtually all the colonists, and restricted economic prosperity. The Townshend acts is another factor towards the revolution. As Sam Adams quoted that “The parliament was taxing illegally!” every colonist agreed to that, and a boycott of British goods resulted. With regards to that, the British passed the Currency act, which made paper money worthless, and that led us to rely -economically- on England for Hard currency, a globally traded  that can serve as a reliable and stable .

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The colonies were also economically inferior to England by the tea and coercive acts. The tea act was an act where the colonist middlemen merchants were being bypassed, and the trading was done by the British. This hurt our economic prosperity of the colonists, mobs had strengthened in anger and the Boston Tea Party followed. What then happened was that the British became mad at the colonial resistance to British law, therefore the British passed the Coercive Act or "Intolerable Act". The Intolerable act closed off the Boston Port, which closed off the center of economic prosperity (trading) of New ...

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