Benjamin Franklin

"Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One" was published in 1773. It was the time before the Revolutionary War. In that year, a series of events happened in America which is builds to the Revolutionary War. First, the British government increases the tax. The Americans sent representative to Britain. They hoped they could talk to the king about the tax. However, they failed. American people were so angry. They think if their words are meaningless to the king or the Congress, then, they did not need to pay the tax. Many business organizations smuggle to against the government, but they faced pressure from the Kingdom http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm).

One of the most famous events happened at that time is the Boston tea party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party). Some tea businessmen begin to smuggle tea from China and India to reduce the cost in tax. In December 16th 1773, four ships, which were full of tea, refused to enter the port. People in revolution organization got on the ship, destroy this tea, and sink into the ocean.

This is an important event. People in America soon showed their different attitude in the event. The funny thing is, as a hero after USA build, Franklin try to against the revolution at that time. He did not think people did right thing. Instead, he trusted that people should pay for this tea from tax. Franklin turned his attitude into support only after his trust the revolution will success.

With these events began in America, Franklin began to think about problems existing in Britain. The edge part will have problem first. Just like a cake. These edge places will separate first because of lack of control from central government. He also mentioned that the government should listen to the sound from edge people. Even he did not agree with the independency through the war. He also noticed the Britain government, if the war begins in colony, they would face a lot of problems. Franklin showed a lot of evidence and reason to let the Britain know what was wrong. He saw a lot conflict in last few years. After feeling nothing from the Britain government, Franklin began to support the revolution.

In 18 countries, even a lot conflicts began. Most people in America still lived in a peaceful way. However, they begin to face problems such as high tax. Native businessmen begin to lose their market and opportunities on selling. When the war began, the newborn USA had big problems in the economy. The company broke down. USA also lost the chance to output their product. The British product is much cheaper. The new government chose to stop trade with Britain. However, it failed. The output reduced a lot, and sailors lost their work.

It is that time, USA's production industry improved a lot. Newly built factories produced enough to against the British items. The USA found the way to independence from the Britain. A way cut the dependency of the Britain.

At these years, disasters go through the whole of America. A lot of people died in different disasters. It is the problem from the slave trade. Slavers bring many diseases from their own country.

During that period, Franklin began to change his mind to support the independency. At that time, many conflicts began, and the British government showed no ability to stop them. Several years before 1773, the Americans seemed like sheep without any idea of change. They felt good with the convenience from British government. Now everything changed. People want to show their mind because they did not feel good with the tax and acts. Before that point, Franklin may say much more about how to deal with these conflicts like advice, and it more like an alert or warning.