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What Caused The American Revolution

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The American Revolution happened because the colonists wanted to have full rights as British citizens, but England didn't want that. England thought it was their right to be able to have full control over the New World. Britain had a pretty big debt because of the French and Indian War, so they used the colonists to be able to get money back. Acts like the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act made the colonists extremely angry. While quite a few of the causes of Revolutionary War were political, I believe that the causes were more economical issues. England limited colonial trade with mercantilism, which made it so the colonies could only trade with England. Eventually the rules became stricter; all of the goods had to be imported on English ships.
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