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Politics The political cause for the American Revolution was and the failure of the British to give the American colonies representation in government. The lack of colonial control over the colonies frustrated the colonists. The fact that Britain did not think to implement these measures almost inevitably led to dissatisfaction in the colonies. The colonists then became upset because of the Proclamation Act of 1763, and the Stamp Act. These Acts effectively "punished" colonists for fighting the American-Indian War, taxing the colonists and giving away the Ohio Valley, the reason why the war even started. Colonial attempts to speak out against these Acts were responded to by rough attempts to regain control such as the Townshend Acts and later, the Intolerable Acts, instead of negotiation. This forced the American colonists to violence, causing the American Revolution.

The political reasons why the American Colonists won the American Revolutionary War was because