The Road to the Revolution

The colonists were justified to fight the British to gain control of their own future. The Proclamation of 1763 was an imaginary line that went down the edge of the Appalachian Mountains. The British said the colonists were not to move west of the line. The British did not want to get into a fight with the Native Americans and French. The colonists wanted to move west and explore, though. The colonists felt as if they were trapped and couldn’t get free from the British. This caused anger between the two countries. They were willing to fight for their freedom. In the First Continental Congress, the colonies united. They decided to start a militia in case the British were to attack them. When the British did attack, the colonists were ready. British soldiers marched to Concord but were pushed back to Boston by the colonists. The colonists also rebelled against the British whenever they set another unfair tax or law up. They would fight the British, boycott goods, or even destroy their goods. This just made the British angrier and punished the colonists more.

A lesson that Iraqi officials and our country can learn from studying this time period is that the current crisis in Iraq is similar to the Revolution. Fighting is going on between the US and the Iraqis. During the Revolution, the colonists united and became one large group against Britain, and the groups in Iraq should also become united. Also, the government should take action now because they do not want them to be separate forever, like America and England did.