2006-12-29 21:36:10 · 4 answers · asked by Rosie K 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
See, I think history is all glossed over. If you're looking at it from an American perspective, of course the Americans are going to blame it on the English.
I think that the Americans just thought that if they could break away, they could be much more powerful (greed).
But of course, that whole unrepresented-in-Parliament thing also did the trick.
2006-12-29 21:48:43 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
also called United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War (1775–83), insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and a large and influential segment of its North American colonies that was caused by British attempts to assert greater control
2006-12-30 05:55:00 · answer #2 · answered by Lorene 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Predominately, because of taxation without representation.
2006-12-30 05:44:10 · answer #3 · answered by ericscribener 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tea prices were too high.
2006-12-30 05:38:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋