THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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losing the French and Indian War
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the repeal of the Stamp Act by England
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the need for more farmland to the west
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being taxed by England without representation
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Detailed explanation-1: -"No taxation without representation” is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution, and which expressed one of the primary grievances of the American colonists for Great Britain.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although taxation without representation has been perpetrated in many cultures, the phrase came to the common lexicon during the 1700s in the American colonies. Opposition to taxation without representation was one of the primary causes of the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -England’s Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) and its counterpart waged in America, the French and Indian War (1754–1763), doubled Britain’s national debt. In order to recoup some of the losses Britain incurred defending its American colonies, Parliament decided for the first time to tax the colonists directly.
Detailed explanation-4: -The British government demanded that the colonists pay higher and higher taxes. One reason was that the British government wanted to show the colonists that it was in control.