Persuasive Essay on Revolutionary War Was the Right Decision

The biggest question everyone ponders about the Revolutionary War is how the events could have played out differently. Of some 10.5 million people combined from both Great Britain and the 13 colonies there were multiple standpoints to each event during the war including: the patriots, loyalists, and neutrals. Some would say war was the right choice and others would disagree entirely, yet my standpoint differs from both. I believe the Revolutionary War was the right decision, while still believing it was inevitable. 

The driving factor for believing the Revolutionary War was the right decision is the wrongful treatment of the colonies from Great Britain. Colonists settled in the Americas to benefit their mother country while in just a few years the mother country would derail from their intended mission. While settling in the Americas colonists got to experience wealth and growth in their social class. They also experienced government and farming while providing for their communities and families from their land. Yet after the French and Indian war things changed, Britain felt as if the colonies were to pay the debt of the war. Britain placed taxes on thing such a sugar, tea, and legal documents; leaving the colonists unhappy. With rising tensions from taxes, the placement of soldiers in the colonies for the colonist’s protection was also not in Britain’s favor. Although the intensions for protecting the colonies may have been in good heart it did not end that way. Many colonists felt the regiments had different intensions which would later on be proved with the Boston Massacre which killed 5. The oversight of this shows the colonists were treated as if they weren’t apart of Britain even though the king wanted total control over them. 

The second driving factor which proves revolution was the right choice is the unwillingness to give up the governments and communities they had built to the loyalty of the king. The patriots wanted to be treated fairly and did not want the King to have control over their governments, while loyalists felt as if it was their right to give him authority. They wanted to make decisions for the greater good of their community and the decisions not be made by someone who so willingly neglected their needs and taxed them without any obligation. Most patriots felt as if he was selfish for wanted to be in control of something he did not created or have a part in coming from “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine. 

The third and last driving factor that the Revolutionary War was the right decision was the enlightenment ideas. They loved the ideas of being their own and controlled by them. They also loved the ideas of being tolerant to other religions, reason, and liberty/freedom. Enlightenment ideas showed them a way out of the dark when the King was not giving them their “unalienable rights” they so rightfully deserved seeing as they were the seed planted by Great Britain in the Americas. 

In conclusion to the three driving factors, the Revolutionary War was their light at the end of a dark tunnel for them. Although they did not want to be a victim anymore, they did turn into quite a villain themselves with the loyalists signing of “The Association”, the torturing loyalists if they didn’t give information about others, and the “tarring & feathering”. The back and forth between being the villain and victim made the war almost inevitable. The Revolutionary war was a way to have a clean slate for both sides once ended. In the end, the Revolutionary War provided an end to the quarrel between Great Britain and the Colonies giving an equal understanding of respect for one another to both.