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A 4 page overview of the reasons Americans elected to revolt against English control. The author contends that English support was just not there even in the earliest stages of colonialism. Once the Americans became self assured that they could survive they began to look at their ties with England more as a burden than as an asset. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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would ultimately seek independence from Europe was almost guaranteed from the moment they set foot in the so-called "new world". There was never any hope, in fact, that Americans
could gradually and peacefully develop independence within the British Commonwealth. Although Canada managed to do just that, Canadian ties with the mother country were very different from American ties.
While the climate and geography of the region that would become the United States allowed for the establishment of independent communities that had little reliance on England in terms
of either imports or exports, the climate and geography of Canada demanded exactly the opposite. Furthermore, the revolution which ultimately evolved was not that bloody or that violent, it
was simply effective in severing the ties which England insisted on maintaining on her colonial entities, ties which the colonists in the Americas began to view as an unnecessary burden.
Our severing of ties with England was not, of course, immediate. The time lapse occurred between the initial colonization and revolution is
explainable by the simple fact that at first we did need the support of an outside entity in order to survive. Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother
country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the English colonization of Jamestown, for example, were characterized by a multitude of problems and weaknesses. When
we turned to England for a resolution of those problems, however, we received little aid. Most of the unresponsiveness we experienced can be attributed to problems which were occurring
back in England. That lack of support could be traced even further back into American history, however, as well. Settlers
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