Answer: Yes the colonist were justified in the violence towards the British because of all of the hardships and violence the British committed against the colonist. From the Stamp Act to the Townshend Act, to the Boston massacre were all things that led up to the colonist being fed up with the tyrant British king so they revolted to break away from Britian's grip.
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Robert Nisbet promoted the idea of the "intermediate society".
