Essay | Factors Leading to American Revolution

The American Revolution, also known as the Revolutionary war, was a significant event that changed the whole world. Although the Revolutionary War lasted only for eight years, the American Revolution started developing years before the first shots at the battle of Lexington and Concord were fired. Some of the main factors that led to the rebellion were the restriction of the American colonists' civil liberties and the political and religious ideals that Britain forced on the colonies, along with the parliamentary taxation and the vicious British military measures.

For England, the purpose of having a colony was to provide for its mother country according to mercantilism because of this the American colonies were restricted economically. In 1763, after England won the French/Indian War but they were in serious debt. The high cost of the war forced England to take a firmer hold on its North American colonies, the American...
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