In 1776, the American colonists were fed up with being ruled and controlled by the British Empire. Four major factors led the American colonists to rebel from the British Empire. The legacy of colonial religious and political ideas, parliamentary taxation, restriction of civil liberties, and unjust and forceful British military measures.
The colonists fled England in search of religious freedom, and a chance for their own land. The colonists who came to the new world were very different yet all were seeking religious freedom and a new start. Fortune hunters were attracted to Jamestown, Quakers settled in Pennsylvania, in New England Puritan & Pilgrim societies developed, and Georgia was inhabited by convicts seeking a second chance. The colonies had different economic, political, religious, and social systems, yet they all sought to make a fair wage in the New World.
As the colonists tried to make a living in the New World, they were taxed heavily and often unfairly. Seeking to......
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