Synthesis.

The stamp act was, in my view, one of the major causes of the American Revolution. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson state, “What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the Revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760-1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.” Basically Jefferson and Adams were saying that the war is not what the Revolution was about, it was about much more and the war was just something that happened as a part of it. But events like the Stamp Act were the real parts of the Revolution, they were what gave the colonists the desire to become independent from England. Many of the colonists argued that the English Parliament had no right to tax the people without representation. This was one of the main causes of the Revolution, it wasn't really about the war, but more about what events led up to it.