The American Revolution

The American Revolution began in 1775 as opening conflict between the united thirteen colonies and Great Britain. The war began as a disagreement over the way in which Great Britain treated the colonies versus the way the colonies felt they should be treated. Americans felt they deserved all the rights of Englishmen. The British, on the other hand, felt that the colonies were created to be used in the way that best suited the crown and parliament. This conflict is embodied in one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution"Taxation Without Representation".
The Taxation Without Representation is a problem that brings along a chain of more problems and complicated dissagreements. Durring the American Revolution, several acts were established. This caused disturbance among the colonists, which gave them the necesity to fight. Colonists did not crossed their hands when something that they didnt like was being made. They stood up and fought for what was right for them, not caring what was what they had to do. 
The cause of this revolution may seem insignificant, but for them, the colonists, it was somethinmg to fight for. The main reason was that the colonists would not pay taxes if they didnt had a representative. The solution of this big problem was to find a person that could represent them. The colonists could pay taxes levied by their representatives. Despite of all the protests the colonists made that argued about the taxes that were being established, they continued on putting more taxes.

Colonial Protests Intensify

As taxes where being settled, colonist eager to revolt. Parliment still couldn´t understand that the colonists didnt want any kind of taxation. Charles Townshend was a crown chief financial officer that thought colonists would accept indirect taxes and custom duties. But it was no surprise that the colonists didn´t went along with paying new taxes. There were three tactics that the colonists used to protest British taxes;

 

• Intelectual Protest - Virginia Resolves
• Economic Boycotts - non importation agreement
• Violent Intimidations - tarring and feathering

Tarring and Feathering was a barbaric and effective torture made by the colonists as a punishment to tax collectors. It consisted on applying hot tar on the victim, followed by a coat of feathers. Most of the time, the victim was completly nude, causing skin troble and suffer when pulling the hairs. After doing this, they turned the victim upside down, and dragged hot tea trough the victims throat. Apart from being a terrible torture, yet this gave them an effect.

The tax resistance among the colonies took three ways. This paragraph states those three ways and also the explanation. The first one are the Intellectual Protests, this consisted on making pamphlets, resolution, speeches, sermons and many other creative things in order to get what they wanted. Another of these ways were economic boycotts, in which they abstain from buying or using things from the British. This was kind of risky because the economy was put in danger of decaying. The last way were the violent intimidations, which were different types of tortures and intimidations, including also "tarring and feathering" previously mentioned.