I've heard a few times now that the war wasn't as righteous as is commonly believed, but is there a reasonable way for it to have been prevented?
I've heard some people say that independence was supported primarily by business owners who didn't want to pay the British taxes, would that make the war inevitable?
Allow Americans to kill Amerindians and take their land, and tax the commoners rather than the rich merchants and the people who own printing presses.
>>1125250
Don't send Hessians to the colonies
Don't pass the intolerable acts
Keep only tiny garrisons of soldiers
Talk about potential representation in parliament, accept the Olive Branch petition.
That's it, no one would be the wiser.
They should have taken more Irish instead of the blacks. The Irish can't fight wars like that. They can only get themselves killed to whip up public sympathy
>>1125283
But Salutory Neglect had already been repealed. The pot had already been stirred.
I doubt the absence of the intolerable acts would have helped at that point.
Also, representation was heavily opposed by the British parliament. They didn't want the money bag to leave their hands.
>prevented
Even after kicking the shit out of the Brits, they still wouldn't honor the treaty and we had to go to war again in a few decades.
>>1125317
Which is why the King, had he taken a different stance, should have been able to mediate between the two sides and reach a compromise. Unfortunately, the attitude toward dissent at that time was quite stringent, so that is also unlikely.
Really, the problem all comes back to the annexation of Quebec, everything was going well until then.
>>1125250
Yeah the americans could have not chimped out over taxes and "oppression" from the big bad gubbermunt and king
>>1125297
Blacks fought for the british because they were told they would be freed
>>1127271
its not chimping out if you win and end up surpassing your former colonial government :^)
>>1127280
>throw stones and shit at soldiers
>Wahhhh they oppressing us, the man is trying to keep us down, why would they shoot at us wahhhh
>>1127287
>being this mad
>>1127315
Reminder a US president defended the british soldiers that fired on the apeshit dindu rioters
Reminder that both sides made petty propaganda wars about it, and lied to sway people to their side, adding fire to the flame
>>1127332
Reminder that one of the nations became the world superpower and defender of freedom against the USSR
What if America seceded peacefully like Canada
>>1127409
They'd be Canadians AKA wannabe Europeans.
If the Albany Plan had been enacted right after the end of the French & Indian War, it might not have gone to sending troops in the colonies.
If the Colonists had gained representation or had talks about gaining it about 80% of the revolutionists pipe down. The colonists reacted harshly because the British reacted harshly, most still wished a peaceful solution could be found until the British began trying to confiscate weapons. At that point anyone who considered revolution at all became a revolutionist.
A lot could have been done to prevent the colonists from openly revolting. The seeds of dissident were already sewn by then of course, so even if the Brits did mediate the revolutionaries down it was only a matter of time before they want freedom and their own country. What that nation, or nations, would look like is a complete mystery of course.
>>1128605
THe British acted harshly because the patriots were forcing the issue and making people pick a side
Patriots were just as respoincible, and were just as bad for lying and using propaganda to rile people up and split the nation
Not everyone wanted to be free, not even half were pro indiependant, funny how they wanted to defend freedom but weren't democratic at all
>>1125261
>tax the commoners instead of the rich
So essentially what the US is doing today
