Mercantilism, the Great Awakening, and the French and Indian War, laid sufficient soil to the American revolution

. The American revolution was a result of colonists wanting freedom from their mother country, England. Mercantilism, the Great Awakening, and the French and Indian War laid sufficient soil to the revolution. They were the most significant in laying the ground work which resulted in the American Revolution.         Mercantilism, the economic system for which colonies existed for the benefit of their mother country. This was the case in the thirteen colonies. These colonies existed only to …

…to raise revenue by taxing the colonies soon antagonized the colonists and eventually led to the American Revolution.         Overall, mercantilism, the Great Awakening, and the French and Indian War were all similar in that they one way or another created unity and a desire for independence. Eventually American colonists wanted to seek their own independence and in April of 1775 the first battle at Lexington and Concord began. Resulting in a eight year battle for independence