The American Revolution

There were many reasons for the American Revolution. Two of them were the economic and political changes that the colonies were going through. Only the southern colonies were bound to England by the tobacco trade and the New England and Middle Colonies, unable to find markets in Britain. Any attempt to stop this trade would lead to rebellion and consequentially ensued. This was a restriction upon economic prosperity of the New England colony. England had …

…policies. So, when the colonists were forming the Declaration of Independence, the main goal was to show the Americans' concern for the importance of liberty. The colonials claimed that Parliament had the sovereign power to legislate in the interest of the entire British Empire, but that it could only tax those actually represented in Parliament. The military struggle, indeed, was preceded by a long and fierce political contest, of which it formed the inevitable conclusion.