Overview of the Causes
It was not any one event but a series of events that led to the Revolutionary War
The following events represent the major events along the way to war. There is no one event that singularly led to the Revolution. The Americans believed that they were entitled to the full democratic rights of Englishmen. The British believed that the American colonies were just colonies, to be used and exploited in whatever way best suited Great Britain. These two conflicting views made war inevitable.
It was not any one event but a series of events that led to the Revolutionary War
It was the arguably the consequences of the French and Indian War that began the series of events leading to war
The British thought the Colonist should help pay for their own defense
One of the actions that most angered the Americans, The idea of being force to open your homes to soldiers
Paying for everything you do was what the British tried to do with this tax that was hated
The British Actiins convinced some Colonist that they needed to take action in Defense of Liberty
The first time members of different Colonies organized as one group on any topic
The British realized that they had gone to far and repealed the stamp tax but it was too latte
The colonist responded to the British actions with a boycott against British goods hoping that would convinve the British
To enforce their acts the British decided to bring troops to Boston the most oppositional of all the colonies
The britisn knew things were getting out of hand, but it was too little too late
The Colonist took matters into their own hands when they burned a reveue cutter
One of the most famous acts in early Ameican history the colonist made clear they were not going to be subdueds
The British responded to the colonists actions by imposing the Coercive acts
Once the First Continental Congress met it was clear the colonist were heading down a path that there was no turning back
While the causes of the war are complex here we look at some of the economic causes of the war