Many factors brought about the War of Independence in America. I will consider and analyse some of the larger factors bringing about the revolution. The American Revolution wasn’t like any other revolution, there was no revolt against the higher class nor was it about suppressing the lower class. The revolution included all people of all the races of all classes. It was against another country.

England’s opinion of the colonists of America was quite low, they thought of them as the “mongrels” of Europe. They had as much right as England allowed and no more. America existed solely for England, providing her with raw materials, food and a market place for the sales of goods. The English people thought of the colonists as being rather lazy, they thought the colonists were enjoying their days whilst laying about eating food. If this was true then why shouldn’t the colonists be taxed more? These reasons led the enforcement of the Navigations Act, which placed duties on certain products like molasses, rice, naval stores, furs, sugar and tobacco. Also the colonies could only trade with England, from there the English would sell the products to other countries with quite

After the colonists little revolt of complaint New York refused to supply England’s armies they also refused the import duties. Conservatives were agreeing to the movement “no taxation without representation”. In 1770 a mob of colonists man handled and burnt a tax office, the English army moved in on the small riot, the mob started throwing missiles at the army. A few shots were fired in the direction of the colonists, 3 men were killed and another 2 were mortally wounded. This horrible incident is also called the Boston Massacre.

Colonies joined together in revolt, they had decided they wanted to be free, revolting against too much authority and governing

An act was applied in 1764 called the Sugar Act put taxes on molasses, sugar and a couple of other products this caused protests in new England from the merchants and soon the duty in molasses was reduced. Another act called the Stamp Act was introduced which required all newspaper and legal documents to have a government stamp on it. Lawyers, editors, merchants and more were all in uproar. Protests broke out in New York and New England. All the merchants refused to import any kind of English goods until the Stamp Act was discontinued. 9 out of the 13 colonies sent out representatives to a Stamp Act congress, where they wished to discuss the act to see if it holds any value within the colonies. The court had decided that England had no right to enforce any kind of act without the acknowledgment and consent of the colonies which it was to be enforced upon.

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