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This 4 page paper examines the various causes surrounding the American Revolution. The Enlightenment is discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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difficulties were also attached to underlying social, economic, and political problems. One can see how communication and distortion in views would create problems. At the same time, it is
a bit difficult to see exactly how everything aggravated the problems between the colonies and the British. What were the crises in each area that led to war? It seems
that between 1763 and 1775, there had been growing discontent with the British as colonists thought that they were being overtaxed (Miller & Faux, 1997). Taxes were foisted upon
the colonies but the colonists claimed that they were not represented so they should not have to pay taxes (Miller & Faux, 1997). Most people recall the famous "no taxation
without representation" phrase. The Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre were ways of protest these things (Miller & Faux, 1997). The war was caused by economic and political strife
as the colonists felt too heavily taxed and they wanted autonomy (Miller & Faux, 1997). The colonists felt burdened in two ways. One may compare this to the situation today.
People vote for one party or another usually due to the fact that they have economic problems. They vote with their pocketbooks. They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty.
For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what caused the revolution exactly. One source puts it this way: "The English institutions, transplanted to
America early in the seventeenth century, had developed on purely American lines, had been shaped by the social, political, and economic conditions peculiar to America. The result was that the
two peoples unconsciously grew apart, so far apart that they were no longer able to understand each other; and when England now attempted to play the part of parent the
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