their causes. The first example of a "justified" war brings us to The Revolutionary War in America during the late 1700's. In this war the colonial Americans wanted independence from the British who ruled over them. There were many reasons given for the revolution taking place. Some reasons were things such as taxation without representation, not being able to travel and expand into the Appalachians, and that the ruling king had "established absolute Tyranny over the States". All of these reasons are well justified and give good reason to revolt against their government. The people of the States were being taken advantage of and were all out of options, it was either sit there and get beat upon or fight back. Although the American colonist was fairly prosperous on the average, the weight of taxes had become unbearable. From this example we now have one reason in which war is justified; when your ruling government has become tyrannical in nature. Our next example brings us to the Civil War, which also took place in America, but was about a century later. This war was based upon the idea of freedom in many senses. The North wanted to free the slaves of the South and wanted to abolish slavery while the South relied so desperately upon slavery and had built its way of life around the institution. Before we identify the motives of the North we will look at the South. The southern states that succeeded from the Union did this knowing that if they stayed their livelihood would soon be threatened and they would surely fight for that. This brings back the idea of revolting against your government when they have become tyrannical in nature. On the other hand though we can now look at the North and know that they were in the correct position in this war. Although people's opinions were based on much "Tom Foolery" during that time period and even after the slaves were "freed" they weren't quite free, but it was an important step in...
