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This 3 page paper discusses the various factors which led to the American Revolution, based on primary source document analysis. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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America watch with appall, not even considering that in a not too distant past, these scenes their scenes, this anger was our anger. The American Revolution did not reach critical
max over night. Rather, it was a culmination of factors and events which laid the foundation and bred the environment which allowed the colonists to organize and renounce their former
allegiances. But what are those certain factors which cause ordinary citizens to take up arms against their government? According to a primary source, a formal petition arguing against the
restrictions on Iron and what the colonists might construct with it, one can see that the English were slowly placing unreasonable restraints on a new country that was attempting to
survive. It becomes obvious that Britain was deliberately controlling the economic affairs of their American colonies for the ultimate purpose of enhancing British wealth. Therefore, the British Crown had issued
an ultimatum, based on this document, that raw iron must be shipped directly to America and that no manufacture of any iron good, even for personal use on ones farm,
could be forged within the colony. In other words, if a person needed to make a plow, or refit an axe head, he must order them from England, rather than
make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonists ability to support their families and their economy. They
began to understand that Britain saw them as no more than peasants, working for the feudal estate of the Crown. William Pitt, in his famous speech to the House
of Commons says much the same sentiment. A brilliant orator, the record of his minutes show that he has done his research. Most of the arguments for keeping the Stamp
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