Causes of American Revolution
Title: Causes of American Revolution
Category: History
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Causes of American Revolution
Causes of American Revoltuion
Life in the colonies, up to 1775 was undisturbed by Britain. Britain had been fighting wars in both Europe and North America, so they didn’t concern themselves with the Colonies. When the wars were over Britain was in great debt and they decided to impose taxes on those that they governed, which extended all the way to the Colonies. Although the taxes weren’t extremely high it made the Colonists mad. …showed first 75 words of 140 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 140 total…the taxes weren’t extremely high it made the Colonists mad. They refused to let a country thousands of miles away tax them. Some of the tax acts that were imposed on them were the Stamp Act, the Quartering Act and the Sugar Act. They argued “no taxation without representation”.
The Colonies were also ready to become their own nation, to break away from Britain. They wanted international recognition from countries around the world.
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