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__Introduction __ The causes of the American revolution were probably the most important part of forming of the ideals and spirit of America. While this war was completely prevented, its causes were essential to its forming. How England treated its colonies was essential to why the American revolution happened. __﻿__ __1. Imperialism __

The way England governed its colonies was probably what angered the colonists the most, the way England regarded its colonies as trade post was the main trigger to the American revolution. England's mercantilistic trade values, that disallowed the colonists to make good trade deals angered the colonists because they were being cheated from their money. The fact that the English instilled new taxes onto the colonists without proper representation started up thoughts of revolt in the colonists. While the colonists were eager to settle inland, the English disallowed that right because they gave that land the the “savage” Indians. While the British colonies were completely controlled by the British, the colony of Quebec was allows political freedom. These acts, by the British, were bound to anger the British colonists because unlike the Quebec colony, they were unfairly ruled and breaking off from the British seemed the only way to escape from the heavily Imperialistic England . 

__2. Enlightenment __ The enlightenment ideas managed to spread across the Atlantic Ocean and highly morphed the opinions of the colonists. The ideas of the enlightenment such as liberty, freedom, the rights of man, and the function of government, these ideas influenced the colonists’ way of thinking to push them towards breaking off from England. The growing edge for liberty because the government was not representing the people of the colonies, was a major factor as to why the sons and daughters of liberty were formed. These people used the ideas of the Philosophes to liberate themselves from the hands of the British.

**Sons and daughters of liberty ** To fight the rule of the British, after the French Indian war, the colonist founded the underground society of the sons and daughters of liberty. The society was made up of the common people, fighting for the common people. These colonists met in secret and talked about ways to break free from the Imperialist rule. The society organized such events such as the Boston Tea Party.

__3.The types of people living in the colonies and why they wanted to break away from England __

__New England (Boston, Massachusetts, Washington) __ The primarily puritan population of New England originally migrated from England to the new world to escape the oppression of the English society. These people left in search of freedom in the colonies, and the hope to create a pure Christian Utopia in the world. To be part of the colonies did also mean that they were associated with the Anglican crown. Not only were these people practicing puritans, they were also very democratic and business minded people. In the early days of the colonies these people had political freedom and they had no taxation by the government, but after England many wars the taxation finally started. While taxation seemed reasonable, the fact that all the taxes were decided by the English government angered the colonists; this gave them even more reason to want to break apart from the English.

__Mid Atlantic / Middle (heterogeneity) (New York, Philadelphia) __  <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The people of the mid Atlantic region were a mix of many different religions and cultures, these people were very tolerant but also very untied to the British. While the other colonies still had British roots, these people came from many different and really had no hard ties to Brittan. The entire society of this region was run by business people, and while these people were used to no taxes, the English still decided to tax them. The fact that these people had to put up with mercantilism and taxation by the English led them to crave separation from the English.

__<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">South (James town, Charles town, Delaware, Georgia) __ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The people of the southern colonies, unlike the other colonies, were very English; but still had great reason to want to break off from England. The people of the southern colonies had the most slaves, and avidly used them. While in England there were many poor people, in the colonies it was necessary to use slaves as cheap labor. The English however did not practice slavery, and quite opposed it. For the people of the south it was essential to have slaves and hence they would be willing to break off from the British as long as they could keep their slaves

__<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Why the causes were important __ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Apart from studying the revolutionary war, studying the causes of the American revolution is probably more important then war itself. Unlike wars that started as petty arguments between kings, the revolutionary war was a result of the way England treated the people of the colonies and how they, in turn, reacted to this treatment. In another age, the people that settled the colonies might have chosen to say under the crown, but the many ideas circling the time of the revolution most likely changed the way the colonists reacted to the English. If england had used other methods of governing their colonies, or if they had given them political rights similar to the Quebec colony, then maybe their would be no USA today.