Blog Entry 2 Austin Bann

         The colonists felt like it was necessary to revolt against the British for many different reasons. They felt like revolting was their only way to retain their freedom and sense of independence. The British were making unfair laws and putting unnecessary taxes on goods that affected the colonists' everyday life. For example the British made the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act made it as to where nobody in the colonies could use any piece op paper without a certain stamp designed into it. For every piece of paper you had to use you were to pay a certain amount of tax. This unjust act outraged the colonists. Another example of a law that made the colonists upset is when the British put a tax on tea which in turn caused the colonists to boycott the tea and carry out the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was when colonists boarded British Ships, dressed as Native Americans, and dumped several boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor. The colonists came to America in the first place because they wanted certain freedoms such as religion and the right to own land. They also established new freedoms such as their own government and social structure. This being the case they did not want their freedoms being taken by a King who is not even on the same continent as them to be able to take their freedoms. When the colonists revolted it became known as the American Revolution. Without the American Revolution there might not have been a United States of America or an idea of self government.