How Do You Understand The Causes Of The American Revolution?
As nations have discovered throughout history, it is difficult enough to maintain control of a colony that is relatively nearby-much less one that is thousands of miles away. In the period leading up to the American Revolution, Great Britain discovered just how hard it was to impose its will on the citizens of a distant continent. Here are the issues that led to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775. Tensions escalated during the French and Indian War. This conflict in the New World, an offshoot of the Seven Years War in continental Europe, resulted in the expansion of British colonial holdings in North America (mostly in Canada and Florida, parts of which had been under French control). To pay for this war, which ended in 1763, England had no choice but to tax its American colonies. Some colonists opposed “Taxation Without Representation.” After the end of the French and Indian War, Britain continued to levy taxes on the colonies (though these taxes weren’t nearly as punitive
