EMERGENCE OF USA
POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
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The colonies were being TAXED unfairly to help England pay back their debt from financing the expensive French and Indian War.
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The colonies were inspired by John Locke and other Enlightenment thinkers and wanted MORE tyranny and LESS representative government.
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The colonies were ALL Catholic and England was ALL Protestant so they wanted independence so they could practice freedom of religion.
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The colonies wanted the freedom to play soccer, dance to any music they like and listen to their headphones all through class.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The costs of fighting a protracted war on several continents meant Britain’s national debt almost doubled from 1756 to 1763, and this financial pressure which Britain tried to alleviate through new taxation in the Thirteen Colonies helped cause the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make them repay the crown for its defense of them during the French and Indian War (1754–63).
Detailed explanation-3: -The English felt that the colonists should pay taxes because the English government was providing services that the colonists would otherwise have had to do without. The Americans felt the taxes were unfair because they were being imposed by a government in which the colonists had no “voice."
Detailed explanation-4: -Parliament’s first direct tax on the American colonies, this act, like those passed in 1764, was enacted to raise money for Britain. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.
Detailed explanation-5: -Fighting the French and Indian War was very expensive for the British government. It had borrowed money and needed to pay it back. The British had gained a lot of land from the French in North America, including many forts. After the war, they stationed British soldiers in the former French forts, which was expensive.