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What Are The Economic Causes Of The American Revolution

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Could it be..that sometimes the superior can be the inferior? This situation is quite similar to the one with Great Britain and her North American colonies. Great Britain won the largest amount of land due to winning King George’s War and the French and Indian War. Although, Great Britain was succeeding in power, she did not win in every conflict that has occurred in the history of the United States of America. Great Britain was indeed victorious but they had a great amount of debt to pay off, this debt caused Great Britain to forcefully control its colonies across the waters. To pay its debt, Great Britain enforced many economic acts among her colonies; this infuriated the colonies in which they started to rebel. These acts were not the only reason for conflict. There was also social …show more content…

The American Revolution was first caused by the acts Great Britain imposed and their view of the role of the colonies. Britain started to take interests to the idea of mercantilism; that a country’s wealth was measured in the amount of gold and silver it owned. Therefore, the colonies were only present to assist its mother country monetarily by supplying goods and a market for British exports. The policy of mercantilism was enforced by Great Britain after the French and Indian War; In Document D it states, “The colonies are generally restricted in all of their foreign trade,” whereas mercantilism as all goods were “reserved for the British realm.”. This prompted clash since American colonists soon encountered many shortages and their economy was restrained. To a greater extent, Britain enforced acts that concluded in complication. One of these acts was the Stamp Act, which demanded that all “official documents” be stamped and subjected to a tax. This act, according to Document B, was “Extremely burdensome and grievous.” and “restrictions

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