The American Revolution[Origins]

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• Colonies started to reject the authority of the Parliament of Great Britain.

• The American Revolution “included a lot of broad intellectual and social shifts.”

• American society started to take hold of new republican ideals.

• British merchantilist policies put trade restriction on the colonies and therefore hindered their growth.

• Patriot groups began to form groups with eventually led to the creation of Provincial Congresses in most colonies. – These provincial congresses

eventually created the First Continental Congress in 1774

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• As American rebellion grew, the rebellion turned into “a justification and idealization of American life as it had gradually and unintentionally developed over the previous century and a half.”

• Americans saw themselves as a new society ideally equipped for a republic future.

• The British were faced with a huge war debt that pushed the British to raise taxes on the colonies.

• The Stamp Act, which levied a tax on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, and nearly every form of paper used by the colonies, “has lost Great Britain the affection of all her Colonies.”

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