2006-10-08 12:14:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Get out your copy of the Declaration of Independence. It's spelled out pretty clearly there.
2006-10-08 12:22:45 · answer #1 · answered by spongeworthy_us 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mainly, the reason the colonies broke off is because the colonists didn't feel they were being properly represented in the home country with regards to taxations. They felt that if they were paying taxes to the crown, then they should have some say in the parliament (which the didn't). Of course the King of England was against this. So the colonies decided, enough is enough and that we should break free from England.
2006-10-08 12:19:08 · answer #2 · answered by John H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The colonies decide to break away from England because they felt that the British are making their lives harder. They doubted the British after bunch of acts, for example the stamp act, the British put tax on all legal documents. There were many acts to try to let the colonies pay the British government.
2006-10-09 12:23:53 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence were white, upper-middle class land owners, and were put into the Continental Congress by more of the same. It must have been in the interest of those people to risk a war to better their own position.
2006-10-10 20:12:08 · answer #4 · answered by KFIfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taxation without Representation!
2006-10-08 13:42:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the main reason was because the U.S. believed that England was mistreating them.
If you look up the Declaration of Independence, the list in it, is a list of "things" they accuse England of doing.
2006-10-08 12:20:20 · answer #6 · answered by icez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perhaps your question has to do with timing? if so, it replaced into an stunning factor of time to realize this, as England replaced into combating on countless fronts on the time. it is properly worth stating that somewhat some the "redcoats" right now have been mercenaries from Hesse-Hanau.
2016-10-19 01:16:37 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they were tired of tyrannical leadership from Britain, especially getting taxed without any representation In the British Parliament
2006-10-11 18:29:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
taxation without representation. they felt that it was unfair to tax them when they had no representative in parliament, representing the colonists interests in government. they were paying for a government that wasnt interested in what they needed.
2006-10-08 13:31:05 · answer #9 · answered by vladkeren44 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the king wanted to tax their tea... that guy was SICK.
by the way.... when the USA was formed they taxed their own tea.
seriously though... read the declaration of independence... it pretty much says exactly what you want to know.
2006-10-08 12:32:14 · answer #10 · answered by Brooks B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋