Ava The American Revolution was most definitely a revolution. The American people revolted against the tyranny under which they had been living since Drakes attempts to found Roanoke, and Smith salvage of Virginia. Firstly, the colonists were heavily taxed, without representation in British Parliament mind you, on every day items ranging from paper supplies to tea. Did the people living in Britain incur these taxes? No, because when the taxes were implemented they were able to rebut them through their local representatives in Parliament. The colonists however, who were promised the same ‘Rights of Englishmen’ in the charters establishing the colonies through their joint stock companies, were ‘virtually represented’ according to King George, in parliament in England. This representative however, was not elected by the colonists and did not vote in a way in which represented the thirteen colonies. Colonists saw this, and through many different attempts, beginning with peaceful option which eventually led to boycotts of British goods and British currency officials, most notably the one leading to the Boston Massacre, tried to assuage the situation, but nothing worked. So instead of sitting back and taking what the British were dealing the colonies, the colonists revolted against British rule.Secondly, American merchants and traders began to see that they could make more of a profit in other overseas markets, but through the Navigation Acts, they were forbidden to trade with any other nation besides England. This limited the colonists goods to only the British who could raise taxes and tariffs and the colonists had no other option but to buy from the British. They also could only sell to the British who set prices so low that the colonists often lost money through trade in British markets. So because of these two major reasons, virtually no representation in Parliament to protest the oppressive acts enacted by the monarch, and not being allowed to trade with other nations, the colonists revolted against the crown. They fought for the independence to make and live by their own laws as seen early on in the Mayflower Compact, the agreement that the Separatists and Puritans would remain together and establish their own laws that all would follow, and as demonstrated through the legislative assemble of The House of Burgesses in Virginia.