The factors leading to the American Revolution were the effects of the Seven Year War, taxation without representation, the overwhelming distance from the motherland, and a general feeling of the colonists basic rights as Englishmen were being eroded by the colonial policies of the Parliament, the King and his advisors.
In Canada and the United Kingdom, the Seven Years' War is used to describe the North American conflict as well as the European and Asian conflicts. Winston Churchill called the Seven Year War the First World War. The Seven Year had given Great Britain, New France (Canada), Spanish Florida, and the Native American lands east of the Mississippi River. In 1765, the colonists still considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crown. The British government sought to tax its American possessions, primarily to help pay for its defense of North America from the French in the Seven Years' War.
The taxation without repetition was the most talked about and most well......
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