Were they in the right? Were the intolerable acts actually "intolerable"?

>>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.

>>996041
Meant to quote >>996020

>>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?

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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?