The author makes it really clear that enormous cultural, social, and economic changes were occurring in the colonies dating from the French and Indian War. There was a tremendous amount of westward migration in this period. Americans were becoming economically more prosperous by producing raw goods and finished products for the European and Caribbean markets. Even though colonialists regarded themselves as Englishmen, they led lives of independence. Especially on the western front, settlers often had to band together to perform basic governmental functions such as keeping the peace.

British attempts to collect revenue and quarter soldiers on American soil through a series of ill-conceived acts of Parliament in the 1760s and

For me, I like how this book was well written and how easy it is to read and short enough to understand. The most interesting section of the book was the discussion of the French-Indian War or the “Seven Years War” and how it lead Great Britain to place an army on the frontier and to impose certain taxes to pay its cost. The population and movement in North America grew very fast and from these small beginnings and growth, a Revolution grew. The author presents a good summary of the causes of the Revolution, a topic difficult and fascinating in itself. One of these was the economic expansion, thru this started the Industrial revolution, with so many people the foodstuffs couldn’t keep up with the growing population and the there was more importing than exporting going on so backcountry trading centers all over such as Staunton, Virginia, and Salisbury, North Carolina growing tobacco and port cities like Baltimore, Norfolk, and Alexandria grew up almost overnight to handle this much traffic.

After reading this book I found o

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