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 What was the real reason for the American revolution? (4)

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What was the real reason for the American revolution?

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A bunch of Brits rebelled against a monarchy to create their own governing body.

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It wasn't just one reason because different people wanted to overthrow the British for different reasons. It was a dynamic situation. The most famous answer is always "Taxation without Representation!" but in reality that was just one of many reasons and the Brits back in England payed higher taxes than the colonists did. If you were to ask John Hancock he might tell you that it was because the British were raiding his ships. But there was a reason they were raiding his ships, it was well known that he was a smuggler. He made his fortune smuggling in fact I think he might have been the wealthiest man in the colonies.

Early on the British didn't tax the colonists much at all, they actually subsidized the colonists because they wanted to build a thriving society in America. But then came the French and Indian war and that cost them a lot of money. The colonists who were of course British subjects fought alongside the British to defeat the French and Indians. That set up what became known later as the 7 years war which some historians call World War Zero because it involved so much of the Globe. The British won both of those wars but they spent a lot of money doing it. So at that point England was hurting for money and they started taxing the colonists and the colonists were so used to low taxes that you could say they threw a fit over it. No doubt the British went overboard with the taxes. I'm sure it felt like punishment. When the colonists started to react negatively to the new taxes, the British became more and more oppressive and many colonists who had been loyal British subjects and were perfectly fine with higher taxes turned against the British due to the oppression which might include a family member or a neighbor hauled off and put on a prison ship. The Brits really loved those prison ships and many of the prisoners on them died there because the conditions were so terrible. The British seemed to think that the colonists were getting way to big for their britches and they need to bring them to heal.

Then there was the worlds largest corporation, the East India Company that was given a monopoly on the tea trade which led up to the Boston Tea Party which could be said was a protest against a monopolistic corporation, but it definitely wasn't about taxation without representation.

Anyway, it was a dynamic situation to say the least and many different people had many different reasons for becoming a Rebel. It's far to complex to just answer it with a catch phrase such as "Taxation without Representation!".

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A bunch of Brits decide they had had enough of religious persecution, a King who sided with it and decided to find some FREEDOM! Now, radical, authoritarian wants to be KING! HE has said so! Obama was ACCUSED of wanting to be King, of "secret armies, black helicopters" …. Nazi type things, but they never materialized, because they were RW propaganda! NOW the propaganda is becoming REAL. S.O.P. Blame the libs, and when we get the chance WE'LL DO IT! For REAL!

Vote D to go forward, R to go reverse ….. simple.

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Yeah. Ex KGB agents from the 70s and 80s warned us the Commies would infiltrate Anerica, take over academia, Hollywood, and the media, then advocate open borders and Socialism under the guise of "progress", and label their opposition as "fascists", and you think we should take you seriously? ROFLMAO

https://youtu.be/bX3EZCVj2XA