Why should American Colonists not be independent?

Answer 1

Answer 1
I would say the question is a mute point. We have been independent for over 200 yrs. We had a war with the UK and now they are best allies on the planet.
The rest is history.

Answer 2
Imagining that I were returning to the 1770s, there were several reasons why America should not have declared independence.

Protection from Foreign Powers: The United Kingdom fought numerous wars to protect the Thirteen Colonies from foreign powers. Most importantly, they defended the colonies in the Seven Years War and kept the Mediterranean Pirates at bay. Additionally, the British forged numerous treaties with the Native Americans which prevented violence to a great degree on the frontier.

Vast Differences between Colonies: New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies had vastly different economic organizations, political organizations, religious pluralities, and different states of readiness for self-government. It is surprising that the US Civil War did not happen in the 1820s instead of the 1860s.

Infrastructure: The Colonies were vast pieces of territory with few roads and minimal infrastructure. It would make it very expensive to maintain such a country and organize it. The UK had such substantial resources. The recently independent colonists did not.

Taxes: Britain operated the thirteen colonies at a loss. The profitable British colonies were the islands in the Caribbean (like Barbados, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos) and the Indian Subcontinent (the British only controlled coastal cities, but the tea produced there was very lucrative). The taxes on the colonies were minimal and less than every other location in the Empire. The idea that these miniscule (relatively speaking) taxes should justify a revolution is absurd.

Answer 2

Three reasons:

1. The tax on tea by the British was the most infamous.

2. The Townsend Acts are akin to today's Patriot Act and present laws that allow warrantless searches: the acts allowed British soldiers to be quartered on American private property without a warrant or notice to the homeowner.

3. Other unfair taxes were slapped by the colonies by the British that were unfair, which led to the famous outcry by the colonists, "taxation without representation."

Answer 3

The Colonists separated from England because they wanted religious freedoms. The above statement is incorrect the reason the colonists seperated was because many people died during the Boston massacre and during the battle of Lexington and concord.they should also seperate because they will create a new country which will be based on freedom.This country won't have a monarchy but it will have a freer government.

Answer 4

yea cuz the king is a bully cuzthe colnists wanted to have inedpendence