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Causes of the American Revolution including background to mercantile policies and the immediate causes of the revolution.
Title: Causes of the American Revolution including background to mercantile policies and the immediate causes of the revolution.
Category: History / North American History
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Causes of the American Revolution including background to mercantile policies and the immediate causes of the revolution.
The American Revolution: Causes
The American Revolution was not an upheaval on the grand scale. In terms of monetary costs and casualties, previous wars had exceeded the War of Independence by a great margin. Its importance however is its effect upon the rest of the world. This collection of colonies founded by the influential, the oppressed, the rich, the poor, the intolerant and the open-minded, would become the greatest nation on earth and after the …showed first 75 words of 3018 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3018 total…stand at an old stone bridge. The Minute Men fought bravely and inflicted about 300 casualties on the British forces. The American War for Independence had begun. It was the result of poor British Governance and oppressive measures imposed on English citizens who had evolved into Americans. The American Revolution wasn't the result of major social or economic disparities like the later French Revolution, but it was perhaps the "noblest experiment in history."*
*Leonard Peikoff, PhD.
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