Do you think there was anything the colonists or the British government could have done differently to avoid the revolution? What would our world possibly look like today if the original 13 colonies hadn’t rebelled?
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Explanation:
The British took on a lot of debt to fund their wars in various parts of the world, including the American colonies. When the war ended, the king needed massive revenue to repay the debts while simultaneously taking action to reduce unnecessary spending.
This affected the colonists in several ways. To save money, expansion Westward was forbidden. Pushing into the frontier required military support to defend against both the Natives and the French/Tories. It was also cheaper to force the colonists to provide room and board for soldiers. This was extremely intrusive.
Onerous taxes were imposed on the colonists including the Stamp Tax. Every document had to have an official stamp on it, and the stamps were not cheap. In order to verify that every document had a stamp on it, soldiers had the right to enter and ransack any premise at any time with or without suspicion.
The colonists felt overburdened and abused. They wrote to the King seeking solutions. The King ignored their pleas. They wrote again. The King doubled down and dissolved local government putting his own iron-fisted governor in its place. That heaped even more pain on the colonists.
The situation became more and more intolerable until the colonists revolted.
Things Britain could have done differently include, giving the colonies to the French and Dutch instead of carrying on an expensive war. America would be France’s problem and there would be less debt. The King could have sent a delegation to hear the colonist’s gripes and negotiate solutions. The King could have made examples of all the outspoken critics and publicly hanged all of them. The King could have confiscated all firearms, black powder, lead and blades throughout the colonies. He could have taxed every other part of the British Empire more heavily and let the Americans skate by without paying. He could have just cut the Americans loose to do their own thing with no support from Britain.
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The colonies would be very different from how things are today. If the American Revolution wouldn't have happened, we could still be under British Rule in America. The whole landscape of our lives would be changed