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¶ … revolution was economic in origin, or depended largely on politics and other areas of American life. The American Revolution came about for a variety of reasons. Many people believe the biggest reason was "taxation without representation," which became a well-known phrase of the fight. However, there were many reasons for the Revolution, and not all of them were economic.
Trade and the importance of economic trade with England were certainly factors in the American Revolution. Americans faced sanctions and taxes for their trade items, and they wanted to be able to trade freely with the world without the English getting in the way. However, these taxes and sanctions were only one reason Americans wanted freedom, and they were not the most important reasons. Politics and political freedom were very important to Americans, and England began to take away these freedoms and the people rebelled.
The colonies had been loosely governed by Britain since they first began. Many of the colonies had very liberal charters that allowed them to...
After the French-Indian War, Britain tried to make more rules and govern more heavily, and Americans did not like it. Among other things, they formed committees to provide public safety, but which were really meant to begin to undermine British loyalties in America. One historian writes, "In effect, the committees were undermining the authority of the crown in the colonies and setting up, step-by-step, first in the localities and then in the provinces, revolutionary extralegal governments. The old state was disintegrating; a new revolutionary one was replacing it" (Wahlke 15). This brought the colonies one step closer to revolution, and brought the colonists together to form one band to combat the English. These committees also helped bring more of the lower and middle classes into the fight against the British, which made the fight more of a fight for everyone in the end.
Britain tried to tighten its hold…
References
Fisher, Sydney George. The Struggle for American Independence. Vol. 1. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
Wahlke, John C., ed. The Causes of the American Revolution. Revised ed. Boston D.C. Heath and Company, 1967.
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