Did events in the Massachusetts colony make the American Revolution inevitable? The people of Massachusetts had more power over their own government than anyone else in the British empire. As the British crown raised taxes on American goods and soldiers arrived to enforce new polices, the independent minded colonists in Massachusetts became embittered and resentful. Rising tensions transformed into outward expressions of resistance and violent conflict. Robert Allison argues that the economic and political climate in Massachusetts following the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party made the American Revolution an inevitability.
