What Are The Decisive Events And Arguments That Produced The American Revolution?

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hard between England and the colonies. Because of the difficulties in communication, the colonists developed an independent spirit. Harvard College allowed most Americans to read protests against British injustice printed in papers, pamphlets, and books. The college provided education and writings of Greek philosophers such at John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau. The ideas of these Greek philosophers that men were created equal dwelled in these colonists mind. England expected the American Colonies to serve it’s economic interests, and it regulated colonial trade.
In general, the colonists accepted British regulations. For example, they agreed not to manufacture goods that would compete with British products. Things began to change in the 1700’s. England had largely neglected the administration of the American Colonies while it fought France in a series of wars during the 1700’s. But after the French and Indian War ended, the British government sought to tighten it’s ...

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it a claim to a section of the interior extending westward to the Mississippi River. But the settlements east of the "Proclamation Line" were not to be neglected. For their defense England decided to station a large army on the frontier. England decreed that the colonies should contribute toward the expense of this protection by paying taxes imposed by Parliament. The Americans having been accustomed to self-government, strongly resisted the new laws, especially tax laws. The Sugar Act placed a three-penny tax on each gallon of molasses entering the colonies from ports outside the British Empire. Several Northern colonies had thriving run industries that depended on imported molasses. ...

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