THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE TREATY OF PARIS
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Britain was making it difficult to earn money with all the taxes
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Colonists felt that Britain was ruling as a tyranny.
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Colonists did not want independence but did so for freedom or religion.
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Britain was limiting their representation in Congress
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Detailed explanation-1: -Each colony had its own government, but the British king controlled these governments. By the 1770s, many colonists were angry because they did not have self-government. This meant that they could not govern themselves and make their own laws. They had to pay high taxes to the king.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the British press, the publications that discussed the Declaration generally reacted with contempt toward the ideology expressed by its preamble, and anger at the ingratitude showed by the colonists toward their king.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the early 1770s, more and more colonists became convinced that Parliament intended to take away their freedom. In fact, the Americans saw a pattern of increasing oppression and corruption happening all around the world. Parliament was determined to bring its unruly American subjects to heel.