1. Factors That Lead to The American War of Independence
By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. ... On the 5th of March, 1770, British troops shot, and consequently killed, five members of a rioting crowd in Boston, the then largest colony of New England. ... The American colonists were quite content for the one hundred and fifty years prior to the mid eighteenth century. ... The various revenue raising Acts from the mid 1760's to the early 1770's proved to be the most detrimental of strains leading towards the A...
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