Conflict in the Empire Book Review Writing Assignment (Book Review Sample)

Conflict in the Empire
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Conflict in the Empire
The American Revolution was a colonial war which took place within the period, 13th April 1765 to 3rd September 1783 between the Great Britain and the American patriots in the thirteen colonies along the Atlantic Ocean. The war ended with a win by the thirteen colonies and a treaty signed in Paris.
American Revolution became unavoidable because of various reasons major one being the poor quality of leadership from Grenville who was the acting prime minister. Grenville impacted law forcefully which favored the Britons and targeted the citizens from the thirteen colonies. The acts imposed on the non-Britons was received with a lot negativity by mostly the Americans (Oakes, James, et al 2014). The acts included stamp act which required anything that was printed or formally written was supposed to be on a special stamped paper for which tax must be paid. The intention of the prime minister was to show that they had control and power over their colonies. Some other acts included: sugar act which required that duties were to be charged on all the sugar imported by the colonies.
Continuous disagreements in the mode of governing also contributed to the revolution as there was direct conflict between the parliament and colonies. The colonists were left on their own without restrictions hence met the property requirement which required them to vote, on contrary non-Britons were sidelined lived poor lives and did not participate in voting leading to a majority of Britons in parliament, developing hatred by the no- Britons to the parliament and t...