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Mr MaherIn this BBC article, the American Revolution is explained as "inevitable" in a way not often encounters. This is short enough and written in a way high school students could easily digest. It can be offered as a secondary reading to provide an example of how the Revolution can be understood from a different perspective.
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Holly Esterlinearticle from the British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
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travla01A BBC History article discussing if the American Revolution and if it was inevitable.
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29 Nov 12
Stephanie SaulsBritish version of the Revolution
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29 Oct 12
Paige McDowellThis web page tells about part of the reveltionary war. It tells about the stamp act.
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03 Oct 12
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but to the nature of the conflict. The fundamental difference between the British and the rebellious Americans concerned political authority. Prior to the Stamp Act crisis British authority, rarely asserted, rested on ties of loyalty, affection and tradition, not force. In the wake of the Stamp Act, Parliament repeatedly asserted its sovereignty and was compelled by American resistance to back down. Each time that this occurred the foundation for British rule in America eroded a little bit more.
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When Parliament sought to re-establish its sovereignty by force it undermined the loyalty, affection and tradition upon which that authority had rested.
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Had American independence not been inevitable then a political settlement would have been found between 1765 and 1775.
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25 Sep 12
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The fundamental difference between the British and the rebellious Americans concerned political authority.
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25 Jan 12
Alex CurryOutlines of some of the major causes of the American Revolution looked at through the question, "Was the American Revolution inevitable?".
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Writing with the benefit of hindsight
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Adams' comment suggests that American independence was inevitable:
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Americans had contributed significantly to the recent victory both militarily and financially,
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reckoned that Britain's budget deficit was in excess of £122 million
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The Stamp Act
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Violent opposition
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Commercial boycott
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Liberties endangered
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Boston Tea Party
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A lesson learned
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Nancy BlairInformation about the American Revolution presented by the BBC.
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06 Oct 11
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For most of the previous 150 years, the colonists had been left largely to their own devices in what some historians have described as 'salutary neglect'.
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In consequence a strong tradition of self-government developed in the colonies and colonists jealously guarded their political rights which they saw as theirs because they were British.
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British political leaders and imperial administrators sought to assert greater control over the far-flung parts of the empire and in so doing they came into conflict with the political traditions and assumptions of the colonists who resisted what they saw as unconstitutional parliamentary innovation.
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31 Mar 11
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Act crisis British authority, rarely asserted, rested on ties of loyalty, affection and tradition, not force.
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is occurred the foundation for British rule in America eroded a little bit more.
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ts sovereignty by force it undermined the loyalty, af
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h radical Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should declare themselves independent because 'there is something very absurd,
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Its leaders would never again attempt to impose direct taxes on its colonies.
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On the contrary, the war was lost on its first day, owing not to 'inevitability' but to the nature of the conflict. The fundamental difference between the British and the rebellious Americans concerned political authority.
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When Parliament sought to re-establish its sovereignty by force it undermined the loyalty, affection and tradition upon which that authority had rested.
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Had the British managed to 'win' the military conflict they would have had to resort to a degree of force antithetical to their ultimate objective - the reestablishment of British authority in the colonies.
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They handled the issue of American taxation in a relatively clumsy manner, but they learned their lesson.
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In 1776 the English radical Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should declare themselves independent because 'there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island'.
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The fundamental difference between the British and the rebellious Americans concerned political authority. Prior to the Stamp Act crisis British authority, rarely asserted, rested on ties of loyalty, affection and tradition, not force. In the wake of the Stamp Act, Parliament repeatedly asserted its sovereignty and was compelled by American resistance to back down. Each time that this occurred the foundation for British rule in America eroded a little bit more.
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Indeed, between one-fifth and one-third of the colonists remained loyal to the crown once the war broke out. Many of these, however, switched allegiances to the rebels when they experienced or learned of the heavy-handed tactics employed by the British army in America.
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In fairness to the imperial administrators and politicians who 'lost' the colonies, they were confronting an unprecedented political, economic and diplomatic challenge in seeking to govern the empire and balance the books in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War.
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In 1776 the English radical Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should declare themselves independent because 'there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island'. During the nineteenth century the island in question would come to rule a large portion of the world. Its leaders would never again attempt to impose direct taxes on its colonies.
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Its leaders would never again attempt to impose direct taxes on its colonies.
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13 Sep 10
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In consequence a strong tradition of self-government developed in the colonies and colonists jealously guarded their political rights which they saw as theirs because they were British.
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Paradoxically, it was Parliament, supposedly the guardian of British liberty, which seemed to endanger the liberties of Britons in America in 1765. In the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, British political leaders and imperial administrators sought to assert greater control over the far-flung parts of the empire and in so doing they came into conflict with the political traditions and assumptions of the colonists who resisted what they saw as unconstitutional parliamentary innovation
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Debra GottslebenBritish perspective on the American Revolution
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01 Apr 10
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When Parliament sought to re-establish its sovereignty by force it undermined the loyalty, affection and tradition upon which that authority had rested
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Had American independence not been inevitable then a political settlement would have been found between 1765 and 1775
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31 Mar 10
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A lesson
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British authority, rarely asserted, rested on ties of loyalty, affection and tradition, not force.
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They handled the issue of American taxation in a relatively clumsy manner, but they learned their lesson.
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English radical Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should declare themselves independent
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ome historians have suggested that the British army mismanaged the American War of Independence and that the war could have been won.
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The fundamental difference between the British and the rebellious Americans concerned political authority. Prior to the Stamp Act crisis British authority, rarely asserted, rested on ties of loyalty, affection and tradition, not force.
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When Parliament sought to re-establish its sovereignty by force it undermined the loyalty, affection and tradition upon which that authority had rested.
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Had the British managed to 'win' the military conflict they would have had to resort to a degree of force antithetical to their ultimate objective - the
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reestablishment of British authority in the colonies.
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Had American independence not been inevitable then a political settlement would have been found between 1765 and 1775.
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They handled the issue of American taxation in a relatively clumsy manner, but they learned their lesson.
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In 1776 the English radical Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should declare themselves independent because 'there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island'.
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Its leaders would never again attempt to impose direct taxes on its colonies.
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the British army mismanaged the American War of Independence and that the war could have been won.
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the war was lost on its first day
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olitical authority
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In the wake of the Stamp Act, Parliament repeatedly asserted its sovereignty and was compelled by American resistance to back down.
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affection and tradition upon which that authority had rested
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Many of these, however, switched allegiances to the rebels when they experienced or learned of the heavy-handed tactics employed by the British army in America
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In 1776 the English radical Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should declare themselves independent because 'there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island'.
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Some historians have suggested that the British army mismanaged the American War of Independence and that the war could have been won. On the contrary, the war was lost on its first day, owing not to 'inevitability' but to the nature of the conflict.
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Prior to the Stamp Act crisis British authority, rarely asserted, rested on ties of loyalty, affection and tradition, not force. In the wake of the Stamp Act, Parliament repeatedly asserted its sovereignty and was compelled by American resistance to back down.
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Indeed, between one-fifth and one-third of the colonists remained loyal to the crown once the war broke out. Many of these, however, switched allegiances to the rebels when they experienced or learned of the heavy-handed tactics employed by the British army in America.
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Had American independence not been inevitable then a political settlement would have been found between 1765 and 1775. It was not.
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In 1776 the English radical Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should declare themselves independent because 'there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island'. During the nineteenth century the island in question would come to rule a large portion of the world. Its leaders would never again attempt to impose direct taxes on its colonies.
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On the contrary, the war was lost on its first day, owing not to 'inevitability' but to the nature of the conflict. The fundamental difference between the British and the rebellious Americans concerned political authority. Prior to the Stamp Act crisis British authority, rarely asserted, rested on ties of loyalty, affection and tradition, not force. In the wake of the Stamp Act, Parliament repeatedly asserted its sovereignty and was compelled by American resistance to back down. Each time that this occurred the foundation for British rule in America eroded a little bit more.
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When Parliament sought to re-establish its sovereignty by force it undermined the loyalty, affection and tradition upon which that authority had rested.
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In 1776 the English radical Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should declare themselves independent because 'there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island'. During the nineteenth century the island in question would come to rule a large portion of the world. Its leaders would never again attempt to impose direct taxes on its colonies.
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. The fundamental difference between the British and the rebellious Americans concerned political authority
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British authority, rarely asserted, rested on ties of loyalty, affection and tradition, not force
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Had the British managed to 'win' the military conflict they would have had to resort to a degree of force antithetical to their ultimate objective - the reestablishment of British authority in the colonies.
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They handled the issue of American taxation in a relatively clumsy manner, but they learned their lesson.
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Its leaders would never again attempt to impose direct taxes on its colonies.
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historians have suggested that the British army mismanaged the American War
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could have been won.
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Had the British managed to 'win' the military conflict they would have had to resort to a degree of force antithetical to their ultimate objective - the reestablishment of British authority in the colonies.
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