Were they in the right? Were the intolerable acts actually "intolerable"?
I grew up in the USA so obviously I was told that they were justified but I wonder what the rest of you guys think.
>>995998
Thomas Benjamin here, can confirm it was bullshit.
The truth is there was absolutely zero reason why the colonies should have ever given a shit about what Britain thought other than "they'll wreck out shit if they don't".
Literally as soon that scale started to even out a bit, the revolution started rolling forward.
they were justified because they were eventually victorious, thats all
>>995998
>No representation but taxes up the ass
Well gee, I wonder.
>>996018
This. Britain needs to spend less complaining about how much they should win a war and more time winning it.
>>996036
>american "historical knowledge"
oh jeez oh man
>>996045
I'm not American, and no representation was a perfectly valid complaint.
>>995998
>muh tea
>>995998
Think of it the other way around. There was no reason why the US should've been a part of Britain.
>>997061
Why didn't Canada and Australia chimp out?
Remember the American revolution was a conservative reaction to protect the vested interests of wealthy large scale slave/land-owners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Economic_Interpretation_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States
>>997097
US had about half the population of Britain and a sizeable economy. Canada and Australia didn't.
>>997125
And?
